Learning Quotes

• Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Learning
  • Activity

• In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • House
  • Information
  • Relation

• Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Fear
  • Information
  • Institution

• The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Learning
  • Growth

• A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Learning
  • Rain
  • Cloud

• There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Galaxy

• A career in acting, it's a learning process.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Learning
  • Acting
  • Process

• I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Character
  • Acting
  • Identify

• The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Feedback

• There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Learning
  • Beginnings

• The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Learning
  • Involved
  • Significant

• What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Students
  • Research
  • Emphasis

• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• There's no Toyota of America engineering group, there's no Volkswagen or Audi that engineers unique cars for the United States. All we're doing is we're learning how to do what everybody else does.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Learning
  • Engineering
  • Volkswagen

• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Learning
  • Working

• If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Educate

• The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Remember
  • Wonder
  • Beauty

• It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Business
  • Success
  • Technology

• I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Passionate

• At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

  

  Noel John Whittaker
  • Ideas
  • Table
  • Meal

• Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

  

  Izabel Goulart
  • Attention
  • Learning
  • Diabetes

• When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Universe
  • Dark
  • Students

• The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learning
  • Practice
  • Afraid

• We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Learning

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