Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

Every pain is a lesson.

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge...

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their...

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be...

The greatest fulfillment, personal development.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it...

This is really Joe’s second year of playing goalie. He’s an excellent athlete and is really learning how to do it. Tonight they exposed his weaknesses. But they exposed us because we had someone in...

Learn,learn and relearn: become a great scholar.

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince’s band. They’d sit down, and Prince...

i don’t think college is something you should tough out.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it — teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades...

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they...

At the moment we realize that all focus is gone, that we don’t care, interest is lost, and it takes hours longer than the moment should, it is time to accept that a new strategy...

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

The primary difference I see is that unschooling is an invitation to awaken and ennoble capabilities that exist within the child. Where traditional schooling is to fill the child with facts that we, as a...

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children...

I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you’ve been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be....

At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain’t the issue, but different interest.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I’m forever the student – considered the teacher.

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we...

Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.

intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

Train your brain to gain.

I was learning the ropes, and the [congressional] redistricting map came out, … I saw it, and sitting in the middle of the new district was Trumbull County.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we’re taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it’s a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

We started on Monday. They’re learning about installing and wrapping sheet metal on a job site.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to...

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...