Learning Quotes
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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
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I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.
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In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
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I consider studying the Bible to be a valid form of lifelong learning. If “garbage in, garbage out” is true, then the reverse must be true also.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!
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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
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It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.
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I'm always learning new things.
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Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
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What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'
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The challenge is not so much learning to accept the terrible things that have happened but learning how to gain mastery over one’s internal sensations and emotions. Sensing, naming, and identifying what is going on inside is the first step to recovery.
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Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.
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The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
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Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.
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Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
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For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.
