944 private quotes tagged learning

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates

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“Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.” — James Bryant Conant

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“Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.” — Steve Jobs

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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” — Christopher Morley

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

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“You cannot open a book without learning something.” — Confucius

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“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” — Carl Sagan

Source:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” — Walt Whitman

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“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.” — Henry Ford

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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein

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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” — Fred Rogers

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“I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.” — Jo Durie

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“I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.” — Brian Eno

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“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” — Jeff Bezos

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“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.” — Lewis Carroll

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“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.” — Tony Robbins

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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” — Antisthenes

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“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” — Jack Welch

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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.” — Thomas Fuller

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