Learning Quotes - Page 68

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

I am always learning.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.