Quotes About Learning

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

Experience alone, without theory, teaches management nothing about what to do to improve quality and competitive position, nor how to do it.

Money and time spent for training will be ineffective unless inhibitors to good work are removed.

The fact is, they tell me, that they are forced to cut corners to meet production. They never have time to finish anything. Push for production robs them of the chance to go into the production area to learn the problems created by the designs that they construct.

A supervisor comes in and is gone in five weeks. Another one comes in. He likewise knows nothing about this job and has no intention to learn much about it, as he too will move on any day.

Slowly we are learning, We at least know this much, That we have to unlearn Much that we were taught, And are growing chary Of emphatic dogmas; Love like Matter is much Odder than we thought.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

The successful writers continue to learn and grow in their craft—and also to grow their audience or tribe or platform.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One

Fighting the mind does not work. What works best is learning to focus it.

For the teacher or coach, the question has to be how to give instructions in such a way as to help the natural learning process of the student and not interfere with it.

the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

Fear, which is probably the biggest obstacle to any learning process, is a repressive force. It exists in the mind, and almost always it is based on something that might happen in the future, rather than what is happening now. As

You need to be able to read music. For the last three parts you need to be able to play a keyboard instrument well enough to navigate at least most of the musical examples. It helps to have previously investigated the overtone series, or be ready to (the text helps you). Also, the more you are in the habit of listening to the music of the world's various cultures, the more insight you will bring to this study.

He who made you bitter made you wise.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.