Learning Quotes - Page 20

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

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Anything is possible. Anything can be.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.