Quotes About Learning

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon , February 4, 2015].

Real love is a long apprenticeship.

I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love. There,

He came to love adversity as an unsentimental but beloved teacher.

He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.

Tell me, Pan Tarnowski, did your father not teach you to discern good from evil?

Planning to learn means figuring out in advance what the important questions are and how you can best answer them. Few

The first task in making a successful transition is to accelerate your learning. Effective learning gives you the foundational insights you need as you build your plan for the next 90 days. So it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

Remember: simply displaying a genuine desire to learn and understand translates into increased credibility and influence.

Creating a Learning Plan Your learning agenda defines what you want to learn. Your learning plan defines how you will go about learning it. It translates learning goals into specific sets of actions—

The danger comes when people think you have what political columnist George Will once described as "a learning curve as flat as Kansas.

In fact, as you will discover later, learning should be a primary focus of your plan for your first 30 days on the job (unless, of course, there is a disaster in progress).

successful in rapidly scaling the learning curve, building key relationships, and getting early wins,

you can decide to learn and adapt, or you can become brittle and fail.

The first task in making a successful transition is to accelerate your learning.

it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

Leaders who are onboarding into new organizations must therefore focus on learning and adapting to the new culture.

Devote some time to defining your learning agenda as early as possible, and return to it periodically to refine and supplement it. Efficient learning means identifying the best available sources of insight and then figuring out how to extract maximum insight with the least possible outlay of time.

He would have planned to engage in a systematic learning process—creating a virtuous cycle of information gathering, analyzing, hypothesizing, and testing.

I don't know why people aren't more curious, and why curiosity isn't considered a more important leadership trait. A journalist once asked me if I was ever bored as a kid. I only had to think about it for a second: I never was, not even for a minute, because I was so curious. Every day I'd wake up excited by all the new things there were to learn about.

How successful you are is really a function of how well you deal with failure—and how much you learn from it.

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture—and that lesson comes directly from the top. Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won't learn. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of Excellence

Our technological world demands experts and rewards them. Those who consistently deepen their knowledge and skills to become experts will position themselves favorably. But expertise comes at a cost. Reaching expert status requires a level of discipline and dedication that rises far above mere competence.