Quotes About Learning

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.

Well, you know, I love to read. Actually, I'm looking at a book, I'm reading a book, I'm trying to get started.

Be open to new information and ideas.

Successful real estate investors profit significantly from experience. The bad experiences help you appreciate the good ones, and that process doesn't happen overnight.

If you want to deal in foreclosures, auctions, and tough deals, you have to sit in court. Evaluate. Learn about how to buy cheaply and wisely.

Entrepreneurs must learn how to handle stress and fear. Stress and fear must motivate entrepreneurs to become more creative, learn faster, and increase their knowledge about people and business.

we learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him.

What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love? What if the people we consider to be great are actually the most broken? And what if the whole time they're seeking applause they are missing out on true intimacy because they've never learned how to receive it?

We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural.

Stage 1: Curiosity

The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest.

Curiosity Isn't Enough

What I mean is, if we aren't learning, we are forgetting, if we aren't getting smart, we are becoming dull. The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it's true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn't a lot of competition.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

When you are born, you wake slowly to everything. Your brain doesn't stop growing until you turn twenty-six, so from birth to twenty-six, God is slowly turning the lights on, and you're groggy and pointing at things saying circle and blue and car and then sex and job and health care.

when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker.1

I get this feeling sometimes that after the world ends, when God destroys all our buildings and our flags, we will wish we had seen everybody as equal, that we had eaten dinner with prostitutes, held them in our arms, opened up spare rooms for them, and loved them and learned from them.

I could be judging unfairly, but all the people I've met who've really changed from unhealthy to healthy have a story, a story about hitting rock bottom, realizing what they were doing wrong, and radically changing the way they live so they don't repeat their mistakes. Characters only change when they live through a story.

WE'RE ALL AMATEURS WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE and relationships. I

Most business books are long on theory and short on application

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

Learn something new every day.