Quotes about learning
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. John Taylor Gatto
learning men wiser
No man is the wiser for his learning John Selden
learning cutting men
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment. James Joseph Sylvester
learning programming particular
In the particular is contained the universal. James Joyce
learning knowledge views
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. Ludwig Wittgenstein
learning play guy
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them. Nigel Short
learning thinking theoretical-physics
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. Niels Bohr
learning people
This is a learning environment, and learning about people who are different from you is just as important as learning things from a textbook,
learning views issues
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. Pharrell Williams
learning knowledge unique
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Peter Drucker
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 knowledge mean
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge. Peter Drucker
learning experience way
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else. Peg Bracken
learning men polite
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry
learning wind broken
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. John Quincy Adams
learning science discovery
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. Norbert Wiener
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 land house
Learning is better worth than houses or land. George Crabbe
learning son study
Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. John Gay
learning science collecting
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. Linus Pauling
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 power history
Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right. John Maynard Keynes
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. Jim Rohn
learning quality acting
The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it. Joseph Murphy
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