Quotes About Learning

Many of us, both monastics and laypeople, learn about the Buddhadharma without anything changing in our life. Our personality remains exactly the same because we cannot digest and apply what we've learned. What we've learned doesn't help us and so we can't help anyone. Zen doesn't travel along a path of learning through writing and words; it relies on direct transmission between teacher and student.

When you plant a tree, if it doesn't grow well, you don't blame the tree.

Love doesn't just mean the intention or willingness to make someone happy, but the capacity to do so. That capacity to love is something you have to learn and cultivate.

In the second turning, we "Encourage" ourselves to practice this path. This is realized by learning, reflecting, and practicing. As we learn, whether by reading, listening, or discussing, we need to be open so we can see ways to put what we learn into practice. If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.

The West has begun to learn about Zen when it is already on the way to disintegration.

As we learn, whether by reading, listening, or discussing, we need to be open so we can see ways to put what we learn into practice. If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.

Many of us have spent our whole lives learning, questioning, and searching. But even on the path of enlightenment, if all we do is study, we're wasting our time and that of our teacher.

When we've accumulated so much knowledge inside, we don't have the capacity to digest it. It's like when we eat too much food, we can't digest it and we become constipated.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

I don't see a big difference in Jordan Pickford from the first day I started working with him. I see the same humble guy every day, open to listening and to learning.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

I was a bad journalist.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Management is about improving your relationship with the players and the journalists, about learning to read a game better so that you can make changes.