Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
- Topic: Learning, Training
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If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
