learning

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it__ one of the innumerable languages I don__ know, even if it__ in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn__ understand and what__ said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won__ understand it.

We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did__ reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.

In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you__l learn all about when you__e older and don__ care anymore.

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Listen to learn. Learn to earn!

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.