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Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Every learner has special needs.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

Every solution has a problem.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Example is leadership.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Example is better than precept.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Excellence is the new forever.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.