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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 05, 2011

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• War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, War, Culture

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Way, Algebra

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• Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 20, 2015

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