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"It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about."
Stephen Richards
"It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about."
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"To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about."
Alain de Botton
"To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about."
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"There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books."
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"You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life."
Jim George
"You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life."
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"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."
Sarah Dessen
"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."
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"A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..."
Vladimir Nabokov
"A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..."
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"Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich."
Anthony T. Hincks
"Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
Mensah Oteh
"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?"
John Irving
"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?"
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"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."
Gloria Steinem
"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."
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"We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
Frank Herbert
"We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
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"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
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"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something."
George Bernard Shaw
"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something."
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"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."
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"I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self."
Abhijit Naskar
"I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self."
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"Reading is the fountain of all knowledge."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Reading is the fountain of all knowledge."
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"Why do you want to read anyway " for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?"
Epictetus
"Why do you want to read anyway " for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?"
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"When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward."
Bryant McGill
"When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward."
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"No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know."
Saint Augustine
"No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know."
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"When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh."
Matthew Donnelly
"When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh."
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"All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture."
William Hazlitt
"All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture."
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"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."
Lemony Snicket
"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."
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"Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult."
Debasish Mridha
"Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult."
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"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
Santosh Kalwar
"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
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"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."
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"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."
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"Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from."
Mensah Oteh
"Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from."
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"To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson."
Deyth Banger
"To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson."
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"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."
Marcel Proust
"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."
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"There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients."
Richie Norton
"There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients."
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"Either you learn from or you are taught by, the PEOPLE."
Vikrmn
"Either you learn from or you are taught by, the PEOPLE."
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"Never be a follower, always be a learner."
Osho
"Never be a follower, always be a learner."
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"I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said."
David Mitchell
"I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said."
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"In my work, I try to create situations in which we take ideas, information, experiences and qualities to a pragmatic arena. Then within those, to relearn or experiment with how we respond to internal and external variables. There's no point to understanding something but remaining incapable of applying it. I think real knowledge and understanding is experiential, and the easiest way to access those is through our physical being."
Darrell Calkins
"In my work, I try to create situations in which we take ideas, information, experiences and qualities to a pragmatic arena. Then within those, to relearn or experiment with how we respond to internal and external variables. There's no point to understanding something but remaining incapable of applying it. I think real knowledge and understanding is experiential, and the easiest way to access those is through our physical being."
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"Life is education, it only end in death."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Life is education, it only end in death."
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"Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge."
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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
Confucius
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
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"If you define your life by what you learn only, you will never leave a great footprints on earth. Your life must not only be defined by what you do with what you learn but also the great distinctive exploitations you make with the least things you learn."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"If you define your life by what you learn only, you will never leave a great footprints on earth. Your life must not only be defined by what you do with what you learn but also the great distinctive exploitations you make with the least things you learn."
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"Teaching others, he corrected himself."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Teaching others, he corrected himself."
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"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way-we caught it like germs."
Margaret Atwood
"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way-we caught it like germs."
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"Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson."
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"Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair."
Lemony Snicket
"Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair."
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"The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it."
Matthew Donnelly
"The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it."
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."
Aeschylus
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."
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"I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily."
David Levithan
"I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily."
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"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
Sharon Salzberg
"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
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"An' I learned about women from 'er."
Rudyard Kipling
"An' I learned about women from 'er."
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"We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things."
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"It is better to be informed than to be ignorant."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"It is better to be informed than to be ignorant."
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