Learning Quotes - Page 39

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

The best is the enemy of the good.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

You learn from your mistakes.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.