Quotes About Learning

Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success.

We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do.

Any man who reads is a fine one.

Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he'd had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he'd still be there.

Repetition dulls even the keenest senses

You didn't warn me enough. I'm only fourteen! I don't know everything! I can't know everything! You're older! You're supposed to warn me about stuff!

Why doesn't anyone ever tell me the rules of life?

I decided to try a stab in the dark, figuring anyone who worked with so many books surely knew a little of something about a lot of everything.

Don't hide your mistakes, 'Cause they'll find you, burn you —"Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace

Thereare shades of gray, Rowena. I'm neither with nor against. I'm learning and deciding who to trust. Instead of bullying me, convince me.

Being smart is handy, but if you aren't mentally agile, it doesn't get you anywhere but stuck in your own fact-ruts.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. <...> I may have been forced into this war, but I'm learning to choose my battles.<...> People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

Curious lass, aren't you? I suspect it oft gets the best of you.

I was wrong. I wasn't poised between stupid and testing my limits. Miles of uncharted stupid stretched on both sides of the line on which I stood.

Learning to see and manage work from a value stream perspective is a powerful way to instill new ways of thinking into the DNA of your organization and achieve higher levels of performance.

My mother says we're supposed to make mistakes. That's the way we learn." Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy." "That's for sure," agreed Rocky. "But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Education is no barometer for superstition

Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

When you stop relying on aversive controls such as threats, intimidation, and punishment, and when you know how to use reinforcement to get not just the same but better results, your perception of the world undergoes a shift. You don't have to become a wimp. You don't have to give up being in charge. You lose nothing of yourself. You just see things you didn't see before.

As with clicker-trained animals, deliberate use of intimidation almost certainly moves your learner off the SEEKING circuit and onto the conditioned fear path in the amygdala. You may get compliance, but learning slows way down.

Fear is the enemy of learning. It's the negator of joy, the preventer of play, the inhibitor of trust and love. Fear just gets in the way, slows things down, and causes unnecessary pain.

The animal has discovered, in me, a new resource, like a new water hole or berry patch. Thus it takes a new and intense interest in what I do. That opens up huge opportunities for understanding. (p.13)

reinforcement-based technology is that at least as far as animals and children go, we now have a realistic way to keep them and take care of them and teach them without automatically using fear.