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Learning Quotes


"People learn when they are ready to learn. Are you ready?"


"Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence."



"A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right."


"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why."


"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst."


"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."


"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"


"When we read books or acquire information about personal development even when we are mentally, emotionally, spiritually and/or physically healthy, we accumulate the personal inner tools that can save our minds from the negative consequences of a bad day."


"If we have no form of cognitive learning, our knowledge is empty with the absence of words in our mind for us to speak read and write in the language we communicate to others in our daily lives. Also, we will not have the ability to mature ourselves emotionally and physically , which can prevent us from living in a healthy life, if cognitive leaning does not take place at all in our lives."


"A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective."


"And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning."


"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."


"A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, 'How could I have lived without reading it!' and also, 'What a pity I did not read it in my youth!' Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading."


"Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on."


"One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature."


"We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them."


"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."


"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning."


"Developing your voice takes... time and practice."


"If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure."


"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."



"As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say."


"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."


"Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning."


"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."



"I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it."



"So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album."


"Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it."


"To know is to memorize. To understand is to utilize. The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness. The accumulation of wisdom is experience."



"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."


"I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one."


"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations."


"In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth."
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