Quotes About Learning

distinguish between excusable and inexcusable mistakes,

the case method typically presents the problem to the student. It describes the situation facing a firm and then frames the decision that must be made. In real life, according to McNamara, the leader first must discover the problem.

view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe's first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church's long monopoly of learning.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Shook and Verble, Managing to Learn.

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

Said Confucius himself: "It is the human that can make the Way great, not the Way that can make the human great.

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

he has never learned the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Modern armies are obsessed with the military learning cycle, of learning from past 'best practice' and mistakes. The problem is which part of the past provides the lessons.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

It's a lesson in life—don't look back, you'll trip over.

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.