Quotes on Learning

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.