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Learning Quotes
"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
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"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."
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"But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"Grades really cover up failure to teach."
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"He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the enterprise fascinated him; he read emotionally, as other men read pure literature, and his heart leaped as he discovered in noble words what himself had obscurely felt."
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"And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)"
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"I've always said we can't all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other's experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable."
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"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel."
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"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
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"If we accept the premise that we're always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses and tell a good story."
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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"If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first."
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"Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner " an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
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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..."
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"Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child."
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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."
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"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
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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."
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"Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?"
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"I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait."
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"This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
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"My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-- I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back."
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"No practice exists in isolation."
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"They got cream puffs at the bakery but I bet yours will be better, he noted. 'As Americans often put sweetened whipped cream or vanilla pudding between the choux pastry, and we'll be making crA me patisserie, this is indeed a fact. 'What's crA me patisserie? Ethan asked. 'Proof there is a God, I answered."
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling."
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"Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving."
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