Quotes About Learning

I think the title doesn't define who we are: it's what we do that defines who we are. Engineers can be great advocates for what they do and for the things that they've learned. Whether some people like to do that or not is a separate discussion. - Ray Tsang

Sometimes I feel, after a while, that I'm okay at 10 different things, whereas some people are really great at more. You start getting used to feeling mediocre, at least I do. But still, I'd rather be focusing on many topics than be bored. - Josh Long

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

Tell you what," I said. "I'll learn to cook when you learn to scrub toilets.

I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered. "Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?" Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?" "I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.

Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she'd made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. "Let me go!" "In a minute." As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. "Hit like this." Done, he released her.

First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don't talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?

What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.

He wouldn't stand a chance. Not just because of her (magnificent) breasts and hotness—hey, no reason to act as if she didn't know—but because he had no experience. She had been his first kiss; she knew it beyond any doubt. He'd been stiff at first, unsure. Hesitant. At no point had he known what to do with his hands. That

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

We need to create a culture that reinforces the value of taking risks and learning from failure and the need for repetition and practice to create mastery.

repetition creates habits, and habits are what enable mastery.

Punishing failure and "shooting the messenger" only cause people to hide their mistakes, and eventually, all desire to innovate is completely extinguished.

the Third Way focuses on creating a culture of continual learning and experimentation. These

high-performing manufacturing operations require and actively promote learning—instead of work being rigidly defined, the system of work is dynamic, with line workers performing experiments in their daily work to generate new improvements, enabled by rigorous standardization of work procedures and documentation of the results.

where mistakes are routinely punished and scapegoats fired. Punishing failure and "shooting the messenger" only cause people to hide their mistakes, and eventually, all desire to innovate is completely extinguished.

every incident is a learning opportunity, an unplanned investment that was made without our consent.

I would recommend to any one who has interest in Dr. Goldratt's work to listen to his audiobook Beyond the Goal, which was released twenty-one years after The Goal. It brilliantly captures in one place his own lifetime of learnings, and synthesizes those learnings into a comprehensible and comprehensive whole.

when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to prevent it. This

Innovation and learning occur at the edges, not the core. Problems must be solved on the front-lines, where daily work is performed by the world's foremost experts who confront those problems most often.

knowing is always better than not knowing. Keep

Furthermore, everyone is constantly learning, fostering a hypothesis-driven culture where the scientific method is used to ensure nothing is taken for granted—we do nothing without measuring and treating product development and process improvement as experiments.

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods.

The principles of Flow, which accelerate the delivery of work from Development to Operations to our customers The principles of Feedback, which enable us to create ever safer systems of work The principles of Continual Learning and Experimentation foster a high-trust culture and a scientific approach to organizational improvement risk-taking as part of our daily work