Quotes About Learning

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

But I've come to realize that failure is a process. If you flunk a test, it doesn't mean you failed a one-time event. The F shows that you neglected the process leading up to the test.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

The Courage to Teach

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." —PETER F. DRUCKER

Learning to pause and ask questions turns experience into insight.

If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

Forty-two percent of college graduates never read a book after college.

Our problems are no longer problems when we seek learning instead of leisure.

Esto no se acaba hasta que hayas aprendido de ello".

El fracaso es la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo más inteligentemente.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others' successes.

The price of success is failure.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

1. The Assumption Gap—"I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow

Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE W