Quotes About Learning

I notice that the goddamn glue is blobbing all over the plastic and Matt wants to know, "Dad, don't you think you should read the directions?" and I want to tell my son: Don't you realize that I've never read the directions to anything in my life?

There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.

Ability is inborn, but only intense study brings out its potential. It takes endurance.

Music is an act of creation. A musician gives life to a song, even if he or she didn't write it. I would say that learning to play someone else's song is different from writing on yourself, a different kind of commitment. Syke would say it's like raising an adopted child" -Star

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

When you learn the trading skill of risk acceptance, the market will not be able to generate information that you define or interpret as painful.

Remember our definition of a winning attitude: a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better.

Learning to accept the risk is a trading skill—the most important skill you can learn. Yet

If you are unable to trade without the slightest bit of emotional discomfort (specifically, fear), then you have not learned how to accept the risks inherent in trading. This is a big problem, because to whatever degree you haven't accepted the risk, is the same degree to which you will avoid the risk. Trying to avoid something that is unavoidable will have disastrous effects on your ability to trade successfully.

Learning to accept the risk is a trading skill—the most important skill you can learn.

now protecting ourselves from information.

Everyone who trades ends up learning something about the markets; very few people who trade ever learn the attitudes that are absolutely essential to becoming a consistent winner.

So if you are afraid of being wrong or losing money, it means you will never learn enough to compensate for the negative effects these fears will have on your ability to be objective and your ability to act without hesitation.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

Reading is life's grand second chance.

Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the Mono-Culture").

The reader learns the language of herself; she is humanly enhanced, enlarging the previously constricting circle that made up the border of what she's been... her consciousness has been expanded.

Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.

The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.

A traveller learns more than a passenger.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.