Quotes About Learning

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life.

Yo suelo usar alguna fórmula del tipo: «Gracias por tu comentario. Siempre procuro mejorar. Mientras tanto, espero que encuentres lo que estás buscando».

Always make new mistakes!" I actually get royalties of about $50 per year from Quotable Quotes for this one.

when you get on the field, you'll have to start from scratch, turning that paper knowledge into practical knowledge.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

7. «Si quieres mejorar, debe satisfacerte que te consideren necio y estúpido.» — Epicteto

Lo has intentado. Has fracasado. No importa. Inténtalo de nuevo. Fracasa otra vez. Fracasa mejor".

When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing.

debes entrenarte para afrontar las críticas (o incluso disfrutar con ellas).

Follow your curiosity, wherever you can find

it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however

Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.

We'd all be happier and more successful if we could learn to be chefs more often—which just takes some self-awareness of the times we're being a cook and an epiphany that it's not actually as scary as it seems to reason independently and act on it.

There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn." –Seneca

People who avoid criticism will fail.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." –Frank Wilczek

Learn more, know less.

Failure will happen, and failure is an opportunity to build resilience, to practice forgiveness of self and of others, and to gain wisdom.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

track of how many times we've been rejected. Keeping track of how many times it didn't work. Keeping track of all the times someone has broken our heart or double-crossed us or let us down. Of course, we can keep track of those things, but why? Why keep track of them? Are they making us better? "Wouldn't it make more sense to keep track of the other stuff? To keep track of all the times it worked?

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." –Frank Wilczek American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson

Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.