Quotes About Learning

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Failure was the fire in the crucible of greatness. Every time a woman made a mistake, she should just think back, examine it, and figure out how to avoid making that mistake again. Shay wanted to believe that, but her heart wouldn't let her. No. Mistakes burned in her soul, reminders of her failure and the fact that she wasn't the best in the world at something.

That's how we learn, ain't it? Accidents 'n mistakes 'n it's all worth knowledge s'long as we keep from grinding ourselves down in the gutter over it.

travel is compost for the mind

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

Although we will not be perfect parents, we can, day-by-day, learn to live out God's instructions. Some day, we can hear the Lord say to us what the master told his slave, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matt. 25:21).

I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

we know that repeated practice changes the brain

There is a lot about what is going on here that I don't understand. But I am participating anyway.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

At thirty-seven hours since arrival, I sat up. I said, aloud, "That was stupid." Everything was clear, sharp. Note to self, never, ever jump into a gunship with a bot pilot and fight off a construct Attacker code again. You almost deleted yourself, Murderbot.

They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions.

I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?

Did I mean a cilia or was that something else? They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, and even those are the cheap versions.

I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.