Learning Quotes - Page 16

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.