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Quotes About Adaptation

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.
~ Don Tapscott
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
~ Monica Furlong
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
~ Mick Mars
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
~ Isaac Asimov
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
~ Robert Breault
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.
~ Chanakya
When you're through learning, you're through.
~ Will Rogers
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
~ Andy Rooney
The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one's own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
~ David Mamet
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.
~ John McCain
I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.
~ Don Hertzfeldt
Successful software always gets changed.
~ Fred Brooks
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
~ Fred Brooks
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
~ Hans Zinsser
The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.
~ Randy Pausch
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn
~ Nathaniel Branden
When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.
~ Martin Parr
I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
~ Noel Gallagher
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
~ Jonas Salk
Development is maintenance.
~ Brian Marick
Every learner has special needs.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
~ Harper Lee