Quotes About Learning

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea.

College is just a place where they let you pay them to tell you things you should be getting paid to learn on the job. TRUE. Don't take that teat, baby. That is a raw tittie. College is a red raw areola, and instead of milk it releases highly acidic French dressing. --"Ray's Place" 1/6/04

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

It's mistakes that make us who we are.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.

So, why do we do development work in these short cycles? To learn. Experience is the best teacher, and the scrum cycle is designed to provide you with multiple opportunities to receive feedback—from customers, from the team, from the market—and to learn from it.

Failing is not losing. Failing is growing. Quitting because you failed is losing.

We were all pagans once, before we went to school.

I touch the future. I teach.

Ich lernte viel an diesem Fall. Ich lernte, daß keine Lüge zu plump ist, als daß die Leute sie nicht glauben würden, wenn sie ihrem geheimen Wunsch, sie zu glauben, entgegenkommt.

Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?

Les livres sont pleins de livres.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

The good we advocate is not to never judge anybody or anything. The good, rather, is to carefully and reasonably judge (weigh, appraise, discern and perhaps appropriately critique) all things in life – but always with an awareness of one's own fallibility, openness to learning and an interest in all moving closer to the truth.

And in the brain, neurons that fire together quite literally wire together.

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.