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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

Programming is an explanatory activity.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.