Quotes About Learning

If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about -- it's something only you can experience.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

As we allow God to polish us and our armor, we will grow to become vessels of honor in the house of the Lord. We will look back and see this as a time of great learning and blessing.

Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

A vida e curta demais para cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes

We wouldn't be proper children if we didn't disregard our parents' most vital instruction.

Ah well. You know what they say. Progress, not perfection. That's why it's called training. Shall we begin again?

Love and sex exist along a continuum of desire for most people. It's a matter of learning your true self—of jettisoning all the societal dictates and nonsense that can shut you down before you've even given yourself a chance. An open mind and a willingness to learn are all you need. Isn't that right, Marjorie?

It's as if you were a very small child…brand new to the world.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.

Getting something wrong doesn't mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not work. You now know to try something else.

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation. By approaching a disruptive business with the mindset that they can't know where the market is, managers would identify what critical information about new markets is most necessary and in what sequence that information is needed.

The theory of motivation suggests you need to ask yourself a different set of questions than most of us are used to asking. Is this work meaningful to me? Is this job going to give me a chance to develop? Am I going to learn new things? Will I have an opportunity for recognition and achievement? Am I going to be given responsibility? These are the things that will truly motivate you. Once you get this right, the more measurable aspects of your job will fade in importance.

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What's important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, then you don't know what you are doing.