Learning Quotes

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

~ Stacey Kade

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.

~ Stefanie Weisman

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

~ Don Henley

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

~ Jaak Panksepp

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

~ Lorii Myers

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

~ Marcia Conner

Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage… just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset of unencumbered learning and adventurous living… you are just one choice away from that life… choose to let go of the infertile past… go live your adventure!

~ Steve Maraboli

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

~ Marcia Conner

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there.

~ Sachin Kumar Puli

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

~ Idries Shah

By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful.

~ Marcia Conner

Don’t compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focus in the moment, on what you are trying to learn now.

~ Lorii Myers

Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.

~ Marcia Conner

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.

~ Marcia Conner

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

~ Anthony Marais

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.

~ Marcia Conner

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

~ Colleen Houck

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if it’s in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn’t understand and what’s said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won’t understand it.

~ Javier Marías

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

~ Maribel C. Pagan

Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.

~ Lorii Myers

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

~ Gerald R. Ford

Believe that your hard work, dedication and persistence will pay off; improve through continual learning and believe in your future.

~ Lorii Myers

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

~ Frank Herbert

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

~ Marty Rubin

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions.

~ Bertrand Russell

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

~ Thanhha Lai

By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. Only two or three primitive passions had governed me until this time: fear, the struggle to conquer fear, and the yearning for freedom. But now two new passions were kindled inside me: beauty and the thirst for learning.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Regret for not learning, not for the mistakes you did.

~ Garbyal

Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Joshua Foer

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

~ Evinda Lepins

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

~ Bryant Mcgill

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence.

~ Adina Rishe Gewirtz

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

~ Raheel Farooq