Learning Quotes

• Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Teacher, Offering, Challenges

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• The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2017

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• On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Assessment, Values

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• The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

  Joel Brown

  Encouraging, Failure, African American

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Broken Heart, Dream

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• The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

  Pope Gregory I

  Beauty, Bible, God

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• Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

  Twyla Tharp

  Giving Up, Life Lesson, Failure

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

  Arthur Rackham

  Education, Children, Power

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Encouraging, Education, Baby

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Change, God, Christian

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• I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

  Johnny Weir

  Inspirational, Trust, Broken Heart

  Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

  Jesse Robredo

  Change, Leadership, Character

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Thinking, Knowing

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2014

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  For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Class, Empowering

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

  John G. Miller

  Knowing, Translate, Knows

  John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”

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• The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

  Stephen Covey

  Significant, Involved

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• If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Goodbye, Teacher, Work

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• The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
  willingness to learn is a choice.

  Brian Herbert

  Skills, Choices, Words Of Wisdom

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.532, Spectra

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Cheating

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.

  Frank Davidson

  Success, Failure, Lessons

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• We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Life, Nature, Technology

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