Quotes About Learning

The dull mind rises to the truth through material

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

If you stop training and learning you start sinking. Nobody can float: You're either rising or sinking. It's been this way for a thousand years. The only difference is that you can rise, or you'll sink, a whole lot faster now.

The number of times I succeed is directly proportional to the number of times I can fail, and keep trying !

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." ~ Colin Powell

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Like a muscle, your creative abilities will grow and strengthen with practice.

Mark Twain said a century ago, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so.

No matter how high you rise in your career, no matter how much expertise you gain, you still need to keep your knowledge and your insights refreshed. Otherwise, you may develop a false confidence in what you already "know" that might lead you to the wrong decision.

Empathy means challenging your preconceived ideas and setting aside your sense of what your think is true in order to learn what actually is true

relentless practice creates a database of experience that you can draw upon to make more enlightened choices.

Empathy means challenging your preconceived ideas and setting aside your sense of what you think is true in order to learn what actually is true. that people aren't conscious of.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it

In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.

How U.S forces conduct themselves after the battle might be as important in Fourth Generation war as how they fight the battle. What the USMC calls cultural intelligence is of vital importance in Fourth Generation war, and it must go down to the lowest rank. In Iraq, the Marines seem to be grasping this much better than the U.S. Army.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]

The road to success is through constant blundering. —COLONEL FRANCIS W. PARKER

The studies, Jeremy, I said. The studies, the studies, the studies.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned that soldiers seldom die. I learned that everybody's free. And that's what the teacher said to me. That's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.