Learning Quotes - Page 55

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.