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An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.
The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child
Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.
How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.