Learning Quotes - Page 34

• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

  Dudley Field Malone

  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Art, Inspirational Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

  Lee Iacocca

  Motivational, Time, Achievement

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.20, Bantam

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• When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Long, Greek

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Heart, Fate

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

  Marion Milner

  Time, Understanding, Growth

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.33, Taylor & Francis

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• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
  then it better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Tree, Doe

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• Oh would some power the gift give us,
  to see ourselves as others see us!

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Humility, Knowledge

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• Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Inspirational, Knowledge

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

  Paul Cezanne

  Inspirational, Education, School

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  "Angelina Jolie Misses Being Lara" By Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. June 5, 2001.

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• The early years were more about learning than about acting.
  I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Business, Father

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• The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

  Ken Blanchard

  Teacher, Business, People

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

  Ken Blanchard

  Play, Track, Helping

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• There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Men

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