Quotes About Growth

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

You learn from your mistakes.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.