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Quotes About Reflection

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
~ Matsuo Basho
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
~ H. L. Mencken
Become who you are by learning who you are.
~ Robert Greene
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
~ Peter Drucker
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
~ Bernard Malamud
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
~ Bruce Lee
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
~ Amy Vanderbilt
I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
~ Lena Horne
Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.
~ Randy Orton
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
~ Rene Descartes
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
~ Michael J. Fox
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
~ Richie Ashburn
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
~ Norton Juster
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.
~ Geneen Roth
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
~ Ninette de Valois
As you think, so shall you become.
~ Bruce Lee
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.
~ Andre Agassi
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
~ Karl Popper
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson