Quotes About Learning

Based on everything I've seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what's in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That's it.

Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.

The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

That's the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:

For every stage in life, you discover books that speak to you, that help you change, to become the version of yourself that you need to be. It's so very difficult to choose one book.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." –Niels Bohr Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

La productividad es para los robots. Si los humanos van a ser realmente buenos en algo será haciendo preguntas, siendo creativos y teniendo experiencias.»

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

He said the HP mantra was "MBWA." Translation: Managing By Wandering Around. It stands for being in touch, being human—and learning from everyone.

Stay humble or get humbled.

Rave reviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others

Failure is highly underrated.

Now I know that parenting is also one way to stay young.

I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .

I don't like the word 'education' because it is such an extraordinary abstraction. I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.' So

I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.