Quotes About Learning

The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.

I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were speech teachers, and every time I got it wrong, one of the speech teachers would jump up and correct it.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

Growing up, my father was never interested in how many goals I scored, how many passes I made, but only in how many mistakes I made, and how I could be more efficient.

I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.

My dad did a great job passing on what he learned from his career.

I've learned things in Italy at the age of 31. Some of the passing drills are so complicated you need a high level of concentration and if you mess up the rhythm, believe me you are told!

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

The best player I ever played with is probably Cesc Fabregas. I only got to play with him for a year before he went back to Barcelona, but I learned so much from him - the way he knew what he was going to do with the ball before he got it and his passing - and he scored goals.

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced

breakthroughs come when people learn how to take the time to stop and examine their assumptions.

We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.