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Learning Quotes
"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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"A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner."
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"The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated."
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"Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world."
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"The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation."
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"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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"So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience."
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"Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency 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."
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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
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"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."
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"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."
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"There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student."
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"An' I learned about women from 'er."
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"Not learning by doing, but learning by risking."
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"How'd you get to be so good at this?""I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy.""Oh."
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"I noticed that some people feel that asking people to help them with things that they are unfamiliar with, means that they are not smart enough. So therefore, they tell themselves that they can figure it all out by themselves without asking questions. But the truth is, no one knows it all; neither would anyone ever succeed in knowing it all."
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"Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories."
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
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"Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired."
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"A writer must expect other people to criticize their work and open-mindedly consider all worthwhile suggestions. Martial arts master Bruce Lee advised anyone attempting to master a difficult enterprise to learn from other people but also liberally experiment and judiciously draw from our own well of intelligence and talent. 'Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
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"I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better."
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