Quotes About Learning

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

helps in computer programming

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

To start, meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say, "Stay." Does the puppy listen? It gets up and runs away. You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay." And the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and pees in the corner or makes some other mess.

The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.

Magic is doing something the other guy can't do. We haven't learned how to do it yet, so it's magic. When we learn how and understand it, it's science.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I know nothing about technology.

Stupidity is always expensive

I have begun to imagine human knowledge and ignorance as tracing a curve of asymptotic divergence, such that with every increase in knowledge, there occurs a greater increase in ignorance, the result being that our ignorance always exceeds our knowledge, and the gap between the two grows infinitely greater, not smaller, as infinite time passes.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Participating in work enables the children to learn important lessons early on, lessons that are necessary for life. They learn to do their fair share and to help others.

Albert Einstein: "If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Well Dennis you don't have to hear any of the mountain music they play here. Telling the young lies so that they can learn to get old. Favouring them with biscuits. "It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, declension on a three mile grade." In either case collision course. You either pick up the music or you don't.

They accept that failure is an integral component of moving forward and, instead, create an environment where "unsafe" thinking and failure are encouraged, recognized, and rewarded.

As Tony Robbins said, "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.