Quotes About Learning

Intuition is the use of patterns they've already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.

We can increase insights by exposing ourselves to lots of different ideas that might help us form new connections.

When we put too much energy into eliminating mistakes, we're less likely to gain insights. Having insights is a different matter from preventing mistakes.

you don't expect much, if you don't inquire in a way that respects the intelligence of the other person, you probably won't find many insights.

Decision researchers were trying to reduce errors, which is important, but we also needed to help people gain expertise and make insightful decisions.

Martin Chalfie is a perfect example of the experience most people have of "connecting the dots" and solving a problem by being exposed to more ideas. Like Chalfie, we get a new piece of information that combines with other information we already have, and, presto, we make a discovery.

The first part of this drill is to resist the temptation to label other people as stupid because of their "stupid" activities or assertions. Most people aren't stupid. They have somehow gotten captured by a flawed belief. The second part of the drill is to turn into a detective and try to find this flawed belief. The third part is to devise a way to help the other person discover how to replace the belief.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

In this generation, we parents have gone out of our way to protect our children from pain and to see that they succeed. The problem with this approach is that the kids don't learn wisdom, and they don't learn decision-making skills. I believe we learn more from failure than success, but when parents keep kids from failure, our children inevitably end up lacking wisdom.

You may think you're merely raising children, but during this process, God is also raising you to become a stronger and more capable servant of his kingdom.

The assumption is that loving their husbands is an unnatural skill that wives must learn — better yet, we could describe it as a supernatural skill.

I had envisioned that this would be a short book, about half of what it has become. Once I opened up the Scriptures, however, it was like the glaciers melted and the dams overflowed, and I had to ride the rivers way downstream. I hope you enjoy and learn from the ride.

love is not an emotion; it's a policy and a commitment that we choose to keep in the harshest of circumstances. It's something that can be learned and that we can grow in. Biblical love is not based on the worthiness of the person being loved—none of us deserves Christ's sacrifice—but on the worthiness of the One who calls us to love: "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

In truth, life is based upon failures. If you don't fail, you're probably not challenging yourself enough.

He didn't have to be perfect. Seek progress, not perfection, I told him.

I began a new career studying the psychology of stress and the psychology of success. My mission was to learn all I could about playing under pressure. I wanted to find out why, under pressure, some athletes break through, as Hamilton did, while others break down.

It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.

But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

Memory, perception, coordination, strength: guitar is just plain hard.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Though the daily paper contains much that is swill, it also contains some good writing. From it you can learn to write leanly, you can learn to get to the point, and you can learn to compress several facts into a single clear sentence.

The meaning of love cannot be taught or learned. Love will take care of Itself. Your job, as the Introduction says, is to learn how to remove, along with the Holy Spirit, the blocks to the awareness of the inheritance that you seemingly threw away. The opposite of God and His Kingdom is anything that is not God and His Kingdom, but what is all-encompassing — God — cannot have an opposite.