Quotes by Learning The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing learningchangeknowledge None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. R. Buckminster Fuller learningselfworld You can never learn less; you can only learn more. R. Buckminster Fuller learninghard-workinspirational We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that. R. Buckminster Fuller learningmenscience Some of us are just less damaged than others. R. Buckminster Fuller learning Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision. Raghu Rai learningskillsphotography You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you. Ralph Fletcher learningrealwriting Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Ralph Marston learningmotivationalreality Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. Ralph W. Gerard creativitylearningteaching Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Rainer Maria Rilke ive-learnedlearningsilence Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversitylearningmotivational Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. Ramakrishna learninggodbook What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatnesslearningmen I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one. Ramona Koval learningeducationbook Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys. Ramona Koval learningeducationbook It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice. Ramona Koval learningeducationbook I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes. Ramona Koval learningreadingeducation We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us. Ramona Koval learningwisdomeducation Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us. Ramona Koval learningeducationart Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. Ralph Waldo Emerson learningmotivationalmen«7172737475767778798081»
