Teachability Quotes

• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

  Ray Kroc

  Long, Growing, Green

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  Ed Townsend

  Trust, Obedience

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• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Knowledge, Intelligent

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The most important thing about education is appetite.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Educational, Important

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• You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

  Joseph H. Flom

  Heart, Criticism, Way

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• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

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• Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Learning, Science

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2015

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• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

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• In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Skills, Forgotten

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Knows, Ifs

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.55, Bantam

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• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mistake, Feet, Firsts

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Intuition”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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• There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Limits, Teach, Capability

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• It is only the ignorant who despise education.

  Publilius Syrus

  Education, Teacher, Money

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

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• ... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

  Louis L'Amour

  Discovery, Mind, Fields

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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• You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Success, Sports, Mistake

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• People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• It is better to learn late than never.

  Publilius Syrus

  Honesty, Learning, Better Late Than Never

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• You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

  Ovid

  Learning, Enemy

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