Quotes About Learning

When you use analogies—when you find someone who has solved your problem—you can take your pick from the world's buffet of solutions. But when you don't bother to look, you've got to cook up the answer yourself. Every time. That may be possible, but it's not wise, and it certainly ain't speedy. DUNBAR

What she gained was the insight that comes from experience.

Ooching, in short, should be used as a way to speed up the collection of trustworthy information, not as a way to slow down a decision that deserves our full commitment. 3

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

Common sense is the enemy of sticky messages, if I already "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I be obsessed about remembering it.

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals

Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Character is always more caught than taught.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Access to inside your customer's imagination comes with learning and discovering together, out loud.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. —Bill Gates 6 Little Things Mean a Lot It's not the one thousand dollar things that upset the customer, but the five buck things that bug them. —Earl Fletcher Sales and Management Trainer, Volkswagen Canada

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

now I sometimes wonder if it might not have been the most worthwhile of the skills I learned on the island.

Child, the things you don't know would fill the milky ocean where Lord Vishnu sleeps - and spill over its edges.

Thus openness and surrendering are the necessary preparation for working with a spiritual friend. We acknowledge our fundamental richness rather than bemoan the imagined poverty of our being. We know we are worthy to receive the teachings, worthy of relating ourselves to the wealth of the opportunities for learning.

It could manifest and grow like seeds planted throughout your life, so that life itself becomes the guru. The idea is that life becomes the teacher all the time. This seems to be one of the very important messages of Milarepa's life.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner.