Quotes About Learning

negative feedback is good medicine for a company even when it is unfounded.

My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts.

Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago.

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it—when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill—the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

My best score is 103 but I've only been playing for fifteen years.