Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.

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.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.