Quotes About Learning

Uma vez já caí na armadilha de uma palavra, tive de pagar um preço amargo...

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître. Et nul ne se connaît tant qu'il n'a pas souffert. C'est une dure loi, mais une loi suprême, vieille comme le monde et la fatalité, qu'il nous faut du malheur recevoir le baptême et qu'à ce triste prix tout doit être acheté...

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In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

2 years ago I couldn't even spell Graduate and not I are one!

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

There are likely kernels of truth in the complaints that can be turned into valuable insights.

Leaders aren't just born. They're made. You can never stop learning. You can't lead from the back. You have to take care of your people first.

A leader should always approach a crisis from the perspective that God has something to teach him or her. Adversity is a pathway to refinement.

Successes teach us very little. A successful design doesn't tell us how close to failure it might be.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

I want to learn how to boil milk. I somehow manage to over-boil and waste it consistently.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.