Quotes About Learning

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Every day you teach attitude.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.

Suddenly, I was plunged back into an avid learning environment, starting at the bottom and working my way painstakingly up the mountain. The thrill of learning and accomplishing stimulated me so much that the work was pleasurable.

These younger doctors are the immediate interface with clinical medicine for the students. The students trail their interns and residents every waking minute and absorb from them how medicine is done—how it is spoken, thought, written, performed, attired, and equipped.

true in eighth grade, when Gracie was in first grade.

Just be careful. Learn your lessons well, and always follow your instincts.

When you begin to thirst for knowledge, you drink it in. You need not go out for it, nor away. The ocean of it surrounds us as the atmosphere.

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

It was an age of tragic mistakes.

Failure is always a bitter pill to swallow, Mr. Crepsley said.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.

My master always said you couldn't beat a skill out of somebody. They had to learn in their own way and time. If you rushed them, you only delayed them. You had to be firm but not cruel. Cruelty is a barrier, and barriers slow people down.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

Which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.

Culver is a language magnet school. What it's mainly a magnet for, if you want to know the truth, is nerds.