Allen Steele Quotes

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Allen Steele

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Learning
  • Young
  • More

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Learning

• Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Learning
  • Someone
  • Without

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Learning

• In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Universe
  • Mistakes
  • Radio

• I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Different
  • Children
  • Experience

• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Learning
  • Understanding
  • Content

• The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Past
  • Education
  • Learning

• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Improvement

• As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realising that I am not equipped to just coast, I have to constantly renew my skills.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • School
  • Learning

• I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

  

  Prince Charles
  • People
  • Energy
  • Challenge

• I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

  

  John Thorn
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Today

• We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • Children
  • Moving
  • Drinking

• We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

  

  Allen Steele
  • Learning
  • Mistakes
  • Survive