educational

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Your mind can find all the excuses why your dreams are not possible but you will not be able to fight with your mind the stronger pull of your heart.(from The Amazing You movie)

There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.

You find your purpose by putting the mind in the service of the heart and not the other way around. (from The Amazing You movie)

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

If we listen, we shall learn.

All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Real learning begins outside the classroom.

Learn not from imitating but from emulating.

Study to learn, do not study to pass.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".