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Quotes About Learning

As Dr. W. Edwards Deming is famously paraphrased, "Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.
~ Gene Kim
everyone has learned something about how Data Hub actually works, in stark contrast with their mental models of how they thought it works.
~ Gene Kim
When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge into explicit, codified knowledge, which becomes someone else's expertise through practice.
~ Gene Kim
The more assumptions we can invalidate, the faster we can find and fix problems, increases our resilience, agility, and ability to learn and innovate.
~ Gene Kim
Ananda always wanted to listen and learn, while I was devoted to active practice. This is why I have already managed to attain supreme awakening, while Ananda has been taking care of my teachings. He will take care of the Dharma storehouses of future buddhas, and teach, transform, and develop multitudes of bodhisattvas. Such was his original vow. So now he receives this assurance.
~ Gene Reeves
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still loose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.
~ Gene Simmons
You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.
~ Gene Siskel
There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
~ Gene Wolfe
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
~ Gene Wolfe
How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.
~ Genevieve Cogman
This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.
~ Genevieve Cogman
I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Vogliamo i libri. Amiamo i libri. Viviamo con i libri
~ Genevieve Cogman
My life is painfully full of learning experiences where I've had to be an expert at short notice,
~ Genevieve Cogman
How?" Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.
~ Genevieve Cogman
In fact, we wish to remind all Librarians that they are here to collect books, not dinosaurs. Those Librarians who have problems distinguishing between the two should take a refresher course in Library basics.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Stories matter – telling them, sharing them, preserving them, changing them, learning from them, and escaping with and through them. We learn about ourselves and the world that we live in through fiction just as much as through facts. Empathy, perception and understanding are never wasted. All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past – and the future.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Physics had never been Irene's strong point. In fact, it was on her list of weak points, along with visual art, human anatomy, and the ability to maintain a convincing American accent.)
~ Genevieve Cogman
All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past—and the future.
~ Genevieve Cogman
We want books. We love books. We live with books.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing
~ Genevieve Cogman