Quotes about learning
learning knowledge years
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline. Peter Drucker
learning men heaven
We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence. John Taylor
learning school long
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. John Taylor Gatto
learning unique challenges
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.
learning creative conditioning
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
learning simple men
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
learning acting acting-now
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. Micky Dolenz
learning son study
Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. John Gay
learning degrees kind
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
learning fire brain
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
learning school mean
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact. John Dewey
learning fighting simple
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. John Carmack
learning imagination creative
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination. John Backus
learning
To learn is to change. George Leonard
learning educated knows
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. Georg Simmel
learning differences people
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it. Jim Rohn
learning miracle process
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
learning feelings hard
How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once. Linda Ellerbee
learning essence giving
The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away. Leo Buscaglia
learning literature caricatures
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
learning-experience
It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart. Julie Adams
learning talking
You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson
learning people watches
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield
learning heart ignorance
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly analyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.
learning simple programming
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. Maimonides
learning tests certainty
Certitude is not the test of certainty. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
learning bugs problem
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). Eric S. Raymond
learning giving credit
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. Epictetus
learning forgotten pleasure
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
learning long young
You can stay young as long as you learn. Emily Dickinson
learning thinking order
In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small. Emeril Lagasse
learning answers lessons
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. Katharine Graham
learning school home
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. Joseph Chilton Pearce