Learning Quotes - Page 76

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so good, only because I'm experimenting and it just doesn't work out right. It's always a learning experience.

Patience is the First Lesson.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

I just want to keep learning.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.