Top 100 Learner Quotes
#1. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.
Mike Yankoski
#4. Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.
Peter Newmark
#5. Sure I do," countered Lila cheerfully. "There's Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London," she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. "See? I'm a fast learner.
V.E Schwab
#6. When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
Leonard Sweet
#7. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#8. I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
Robert Sternberg
#9. When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.
Jon Favreau
#10. Education begins at the level of the learner.
Aristotle.
#14. To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
Chris Raschka
#16. For there are many twists and turns on any given path. How or where it ends is either destination or mystery.
C.C. Wyatt
#17. There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.
Neil Postman
#18. Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.
Ehab Atalla
#21. This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.
Tobsha Learner
#24. Happy New Year, Matty." She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. "Matty, I have another question for you." "Uh-oh." "Are you a skilled lover?" "And that concludes our evening chat." "I bet I could be a skilled lover. I'm very energetic. And a quick learner.
Jessica Park
#26. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.
Kirsten Olson
#27. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.
Tobsha Learner
#28. As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.
Tobsha Learner
#32. Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.
David Hood
#33. We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.
Tobsha Learner
#35. Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.
Zig Ziglar
#36. A learner rather"
Stephen's answer to Deasy who says "You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong." (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)
James Joyce
#37. The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.
Idries Shah
#39. If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.
Walter B. Barbe
#40. And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.
Suzanne Vega
#41. It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
Tobsha Learner
#44. All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
H.P. Lovecraft
#45. Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent
Susan Scott
#47. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.
Thornton Wilder
#50. To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.
George Leonard
#51. I'm not gonna tell her!" I shouted back, beginning to lose patience with Rosie. I forgave myself for losing patience. I figured that happened when you got shot at. I'd never been shot at, but I was always a quick learner.
Kristen Ashley
#53. There is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.
Paulo Freire
#54. I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.
Craig Venter
#55. All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
Plato
#58. They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner's permit, before you're allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker's Test, you should have to be a mute.
Stephen King
#61. Never lose hope, for all the interweaved strings
will soon straighten out.
Aditi Dufare
#62. The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.
Lowell Milken
#63. Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
Idries Shah
#64. Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
Paula White
#65. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.
Aletheia Luna
#66. Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!
Carl William Brown
#67. To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
Soren Kierkegaard
#68. Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.
Geoffrey Sampson
#69. A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
Tobsha Learner
#70. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.
Tobsha Learner
#73. I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
Charles Stross
#74. That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.
Jimmy Iovine
#76. Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man ... I could be eating a slow learner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#77. Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#78. If coloured lenses can potentially stop the world seeming fragmented and put an end to nightmare distortions, then the learner with autism who shows signs of visual stress deserves to be screened.
Adele Devine
#80. Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher.
Mortimer J. Adler
#81. Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#82. I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.
Kim Gordon
#83. No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
Louis L'Amour
#84. Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it's what the learner learns.
Alfie Kohn
#85. Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
Rajesh Nanoo
#86. The ability to ask the right kind of question at the right time is the hallmark of a truly efficient and successful learner.
Angela Maiers
#87. My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
Colman Domingo
#90. I'm a very bad student, but a great learner.
Tim Allen
#91. If you are willing to be a self-learner, you can develop yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.
Tobsha Learner
#94. The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
Tobsha Learner
#97. The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.
Malcolm Knowles
#98. The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard
#99. When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner ... a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#100. I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments
Susan Beth Pfeffer
