Learning Quotes - Page 24

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Being Yourself, Laughter

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• A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

  Henry Rollins

  Funny, Country, Leaving

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Business, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Design

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• Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 14, 2016

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Science, Aquariums, Imagination

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

  Henning Mankell

  Doe, Paradise, Hell

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 12, 2012

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• Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

  Jim Rohn

  Education, Money, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 09, 2016

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Knowledge

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• Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Sports, Mistake, Fall

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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  He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  Confucius

  Education, Giving Up, Philosophical

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

  Yoko Ono

  Teaching, Angel, Drawing

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2015

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• In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Change, Order, Mind

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• Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Encouragement, Giving

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.334, Mango Media Inc.

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• When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 17, 2013

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, Teaching, School

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Acceptance, Maturity

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• If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

  Sydney Banks

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

  Russell Westbrook

  Basketball, Mistake, Player

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• Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

  Dale Evans

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Saint, Benefits, Causes

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