Quotes About Learning

Try this exercise: pretend everyone was sent to this planet to teach you. Famous people, dead people, your neighbors, your relatives, your co-workers. This will give you a strong feeling of humility. And guess what, you will learn from people, you will appreciate them more, and they will actually appreciate you more. Because everyone loves to teach.

The typical answer is "I study four hours a day.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Mastery begins when formal education ends.

The key: always assume you are the least intelligent person in the room. Always. Do this in every room, at every dinner, in every situation.

As your idea muscle improves, so will your ability to "fail quickly"—which is a much more crucial skill to hone than executing quickly.

Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.

Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000× ahead of everyone else.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

I keep telling my kids, if they want to learn to sing, or to tap dance, or draw manga comics, or to do anything, learn everything you can about all the masters in your field over the past 100 years.

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.

My theory always in any career is that it takes one to three years to do the studying required. About two years before you are making any money at the new career. Three to four years before you are making a living from it and five to six years before you are killing it.

On the path to mastery, everything will go wrong.

Humans are smarter now than they were 40,000 years ago.

Every day I seek out mentors: people who have great experience to help me, particularly in areas I am new to, excited about, and know nothing about.

I read all the books they like and have spoken publicly about. I read all the analysis on the books so I can discuss it with them. I read all of their books. I read about people they've previously mentored and what happened.

I am not available 99.9% of the time. But I always make myself available for people who I look up to as mentors.

People do what they want until they are injured like a kid putting his fingers on the stove.

Believe it or not, sometimes it's just as good (often better) to read all of their materials rather than be directly mentored.

Go to the bookstore. Find a topic you would be willing to read five hundred books on.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.