Quotes About Learning

Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case.

Every interesting thing I've ever done, every important thing I've ever done, every beneficial thing I've ever done, has been through a cascade of experiments and mistakes and failures,

Walton described borrowing the best ideas of his competitors. Bezos's point was that every company in retail stands on the shoulders of the giants that came before it.

If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do it.

Jeff, um dia você entenderá que é mais difícil ser bom do que ser inteligente.

Bezos took a series of odd jobs throughout high school. One summer he famously worked as a fryer at a local McDonald's, learning, among other skills, how to crack an egg with one hand.

If you don't know anything about the business, launch it through the Marketplace, bring retailers in, watch what they do and what they sell, understand it, and then get into it.

willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.

I still love libraries. I love the hybrid quality, the new computer sections and the books yellowing with age. Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.

you'd heard he was a great teacher and that

Win Golf Credo #12: It is perfectly acceptable to stink at golf. It is not perfectly acceptable to stink slowly.

Knowledge is bigger than debate," I

The simple Francis Bacon axiom, one we constantly stressed to our students, applied here: Knowledge is power. Benedict

I love the hybrid quality, the new computer sections and the books yellowing with age. Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Sometimes being able to read makes more questions than if you were stupid.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

only a few handfuls of students now enter Yale with an authentic passion for reading. You cannot teach someone to love great poetry if they come to you without such love. How can you teach solitude? Real reading is a lonely activity and does not teach anyone to become a better citizen.

To be a leader, you must be willing to be a lifelong learner.

Don't automatically assume that someone is stupid or indifferent because they haven't mastered a particular task yet.