“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.”
“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
“I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.”
“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”
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“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.”
“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.”
“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”
“I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.”
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”