Quotes About Learning

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The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

I wanted learning and I wanted funds. I wanted freedom. I realized there was no freedom without funds. I had to make money to get essential independence;

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

When you make some great mistake,' he philosophized, 'it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump

Admitting that you need to learn something new is always difficult. It is even harder if you are a senior manager who is accustomed to the automatic deference which people accord you owing to your position. But if you don't fight it, that very deference may become a wall that isolates you from learning new things. It all takes self-discipline.

Your information sources should complement one another, and also be redundant because that gives you a way to verify what you've learned.

Will going to this meeting teach me about the new technology or the new market that I think is very important now? Will it introduce me to people who can help me in the new direction? Will it send a message about the importance of the new direction?" If so, go to it. If not, resist it.

information-gathering is the basis of all other managerial work, which is why I choose to spend so much of my day doing it.

How is this done? By applying Grove's Principle of Didactic Management, "Ask one more question!" When the supervisor thinks the subordinate has said all he wants to about a subject, he should ask another question.

The subordinate did poor work. My associate's reaction: 'He has to make his own mistakes. That's how he learns!' The problem with this is that the subordinate's tuition is paid by his customers. And that is absolutely wrong.

We all have a hard time saying things that are critical, whether we're talking to a superior employee or a marginal one. We must keep in mind, however, that no matter how stellar a person's performance level is, there is always room for improvement. Don't hesitate to use the 20/20 hindsight provided by the review to show anyone, even an ace, how he might have done better.

As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

Find a person who is as successful as you'd like to be, ask them what to do, do it and work hard.

And if you're going to go through your life and you have to associate with people, what you want to do is find egotistical people. Find out if they have a reason to justify their egos. if they can't, then get rid of them. If they do, then hang around them, because you might actually learn something.

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.