“Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you’ll learn and apply!”
“You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner.”
“I ve learned far too much to know everything.”
“Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.”
“Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise [ Absolute English, Aeon, February 4, 2015].”
“Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.”
“Every single important thing we do is something we didn t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.”
“What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?”
“Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.”
“At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.”
“In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.”
“You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!”
“How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture? Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through. I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.”
“My goal has always been to inspire in them an ongoing love of learning. To awaken a feeling where their work is their passion, so that they never feel burdened or trapped by meeting their material needs, but instead thrive and experience wealth doing what they love while making a positive contribution to the world. To me that is the truest definition of success.”
“To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi”
“My best advice to you is: Whatever you do, do NOT take my advice.”
“I simply stepped out of the way and maintained my courage and my position in the face of constant disagreement, voiced opinion and attack. I held true and I stood my ground. I maintained my convictions and my commitment to allowing them to live in the kingdom of childhood. I protected them from outside influence and allowed their imaginations to soar. I instilled a lifelong love of learning in them and I shared my passion for reading. I allowed them to choose what they wanted to study and I provided the resources for them to delve in, unguided and undisturbed for however long they needed to gather what they believed to be enough understanding to satisfy their own personal drive.”