Learning Opportunities Quotes

#1. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Julie Andrews

#2. Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Rick Steves

#3. Failure is rich in learning opportunities for a simple reason: in many of its guises, it represents a violation of expectation.6 It is showing us that the world is in some sense different from the way we imagined it to be.

Matthew Syed

#4. Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

J. B. Pritzker

#5. There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

Mary Casanova

#7. Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

David A. Bednar

#8. Learning is a life time journey that opens flood gates of opportunities.

Euginia Herlihy

#9. I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

Simon Sinek

#10. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.

Julie K. Norem

#11. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin

#12. When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

Rashid Johnson

#13. While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll

#14. When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

Christine De Pizan

#16. Life isn't about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it's about the journey and the opportunities for learning - and how we grow as a result.

Michael Eisen

#17. Let youth pass, and no matter what opportunities presented themselves, the capacity to build the broad base required to support the structure of learning was gone.

Catherine Cookson

#18. Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

Mike Schmoker

#19. Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest about
why you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blaming
circumstance robs you of opportunities to learn.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#20. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

Chris O'Donnell

#21. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#22. When we recognize that true understanding of a discipline involves learning its processes and ways of thinking as well as its content knowledge, then we naturally create opportunities for developing those abilities.

Ron Ritchhart

#23. My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

Ryan Sheckler

#24. Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.

Spencer W. Kimball

#25. Every adversity is an excellent opportunity for learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

Peter Thiel

#27. To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Eric Williams

#28. Opportunities are born by learning!

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#29. Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

Terry Tempest Williams

#30. Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

Daphne Koller

#31. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

Peter Abelard

#32. Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Armstrong Williams

#33. Work hard and work smart, be passionate about your work, keep learning, and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.

Janaki Krishnan

#34. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

James Marcus Bach

#35. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#36. The more you learn, the more opportunities you can have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.

Bryant McGill