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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Successful, Lifetime, Embrace

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• I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

  Sam Walton

  Reading, Hands, Years

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.29, Bantam

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• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Cheating, Entrepreneur

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Science, Men

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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• To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Science

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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• You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Aging, Peddling

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• A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Libertarian, Obscure, Programming

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• Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love, Life, Attitude

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• From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Education, Littles, Way

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• Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Teaching, Self

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Home

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• Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

  Bruce Lee

  Powerful, Knowing, Movement

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Science, Discovery

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Mind

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

  John C. Maxwell

  Teacher, Life And Love, Failure

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Ideas, Turns

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• A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Ideas, Brainstorming, Notes

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• If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Sunset, Loss

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• Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Pedals, Bike

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• Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

  Kurt Lewin

  Effectiveness, Process, Passive

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• Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Sea, Pearls, Jewelry

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