“Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.”
“The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them.”
“The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It s not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.”
“I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.”
“WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.”
“Education isn t what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power to learn is present in everyone s soul and...the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body... Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. it isn t the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education take for granted that sight is there but that it isn t turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately.”
“If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.”
“Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action.”
“Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness.”
“The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.”
“Don t ever get to the point where you can t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.”
“Keep up with what s causing chaos in your own field.”
“One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.”
“The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.”
“From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.”
“The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.”
“No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.”