On Learning Quotes

#1. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

#2. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.

Jonathan Margolis

#3. It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.

Tasha Hoggatt

#4. I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

Agnes Denes

#5. And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake."
She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt."
I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks.

Alyxandra Harvey

#6. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Don DeLillo

#7. The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Carol S. Dweck

#8. It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Rudolf Steiner

#9. Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.

Ashish Patel

#11. Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

Teodor Flonta

#12. Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Bruce H. Lipton

#13. We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Mary Wesley

#14. Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.

Sherman Alexie

#15. I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Arthur Hailey

#16. I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.

Chris Corrigan

#17. On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Will Smith

#18. Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.

Sinclair Lewis

#19. The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Don DeLillo

#20. What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm.

Gregory Maguire

#21. Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

I. King Jordan

#22. You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Seneca The Younger

#23. in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

Salim Ismail

#24. I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Tony Bennett

#25. Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

Confucius

#26. The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

Willa Cather

#27. The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

Robin Sharma

#28. Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.

Pearl Zhu

#29. I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.

Cindy Busby

#30. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

John Dewey

#31. On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Andy Hargreaves

#32. Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

Randy Pausch

#33. Somatic markers depend on learning within a system that can connect certain categories of entity or event with the enactment of a body state, pleasant or unpleasant. Incidentally,

Antonio R. Damasio

#34. I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Ben Mendelsohn

#35. The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

Rama Swami

#36. I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.

Stacey Farber

#37. Nothing is perfect and this is the perfect reason for men to keep on learning, understanding and discovering.

Dee Dee Artner

#38. We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Dave Ramsey

#39. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

Sherman Alexie

#40. Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

Lemony Snicket

#41. What if I invited several people to form a study group with the purpose of living out the teachings of James together - a study that wasn't focused on learning facts, but on transforming our lives?

April Love-Fordham

#42. You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

Sue Grafton

#43. Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#44. It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

Melina Marchetta

#45. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

Jack Canfield

#46. Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow.

Amy Lynn Steele

#47. Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Chris Argyris

#48. (on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.

Noel Gallagher

#49. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#50. Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

T. Harv Eker

#51. My dad should have listened to me when I told him that college was not my thing. Instead, he insisted on learning a $200,000 lesson the hard way. That's the thing about college - you pay a ton of money just to realize that everyone is a fucking moron.

Babe Walker

#52. Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

Dennis Moore

#53. At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

Confucius

#54. It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.

Philippa Perry

#55. When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

Satya Nadella

#56. A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

Alfie Kohn

#57. This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

Paul Polman

#58. Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you'll learn and apply!

Israelmore Ayivor

#59. Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored,

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#60. One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

Fay Weldon

#61. What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

Alison Gopnik

#62. For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

Mortimer J. Adler

#63. At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

Confucius

#64. Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Rocco DiSpirito

#65. You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Andy Hargreaves

#66. The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

John Goddard

#67. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

#68. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

William Ellery Channing

#69. I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.

Helen Sharman

#70. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

Sheryl Crow

#71. We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

Marcia Conner

#72. I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven't mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path ... and one day that path ... will take me to her.

Makoto Shinkai

#73. For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Benjamin Franklin

#74. If one operates on the principle that everything can be a learning experience, then of course aging needn't be so painful."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing

Haruki Murakami

#75. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Michael Meade

#76. Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

#77. I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.

Lea Thompson

#78. President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.

Jay Leno

#79. We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information.

David A. Bednar

#80. It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

Reece Thompson

#81. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#82. The child who has been taught to love the process of growing, learning and taking on new challenges and experiences can face life with confidence and poise. The

Tara Woods Turner

#83. Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.
They have an impact like that of gravity.
They heavy you like few tons of concrete,
Therefore,
Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,
You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#84. In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

#85. Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher

Lambert Of Maastricht

#86. Taming attachment,does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

Anupama Garg

#87. Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. The working assumption

Sugata Mitra

#88. I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#89. Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

Alexander Kotov

#90. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim

#91. The younger officer accompanying Waaler was learning something new every day. This afternoon, for example, he learned it was very stupid to rock on a chair while insulting someone, because you are totally defenseless if the insulted party steps over and lands a straight right between the eyes.

Jo Nesbo

#92. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Andy Hargreaves

#93. The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.

Frederick Lenz

#94. We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

#95. Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

Sandra Magsamen

#96. I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

Archie Panjabi

#97. Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Bertolt Brecht

#98. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#99. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

W. Edwards Deming

#100. Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

Ben Aaronovitch