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Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.

Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

By ignorance the truth is known.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.