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.

Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his...

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.

That’s your opportunity–to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and...

Stop, Read, and Listen. It may not help you cross the street but it sure will help you go down the right path.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.