Quotes About Learning

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.

I can't think of any other field in which people who aren't experts critique other people who aren't experts in the hope of everyone becoming an expert.

mentor once told me that every dead end shows you more clearly the pattern of the labyrinth, that each one you encounter gives you one more piece of information that'll help you as you methodically fail your way to success. That's how he put it: failing your way to success.

Nonetheless, you can start trying out generics and extended for loops today.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

Failure when analyzed will provide the building blocks for future successes that will be far greater than the failure itself.

It's easier to act out of ignorance than it is to become educated.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. —Proverbs 16:23

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

In an environment of turbulent change, as de Geus famously wrote: "The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

What all this means is that learning the impossible is possible augments our ability to see ourselves doing the impossible, which triggers a systemic change in the body and the brain, which closes the gap between fantasy and reality. It also makes us significantly more flow prone.

Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

He had no sympathy for people who wanted to know how things worked, people who wanted to explore things, people who wanted to improve the systems they studied and dreamed about.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

I read it more carefully than anyone had ever read it. . . . Kahn's book to me is like the Vedas," he explains, citing the centuries-old Indian text. "There's an expression I learned: 'If a man loses his cow, he looks for it in the Vedas.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!