Quotes About Learning

Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Tüm bilgilerin özünde iyi ara?t?rma yatar.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.

Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Who says Television isn't educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The upside of approaching spiritual practices like an experiment is that there can be no failure, only different outcomes. Whatever happens, you will learn about yourself and your relationship with the divine along the way.

Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.

One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn't necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.

Imagine a time before you had ever had chocolate. Going to lectures about chocolate would have been interesting. Reading about chocolate might have increased your appetite. But only tasting chocolate would have really made you understand how good chocolate can be. Only tasting— only experience.

While having information is a crucial first step, more information isn´t necessarily better. Take a look at your bookshelves and the list of seminars you have attended. If you have read more than one book about a subject or attended more than one seminar but still haven't reached your goals, then your problem is not lack of information but rather lack of implementation.

Yoga teachers must be willing to step down from this imagined pedestal and utter the words "I don't know" on a regular basis.

It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.

Por entonces era todavía joven; conocía poco los hombres y la historia: me había tomado en serio lo que me enseñaban en la Universidad.

Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir.

Kada po?nemo da kopamo po prošlosti, nastaju nevolje.

LOVE is ... wanting to experience things together, learning from your differences, to build future together.

if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve.