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" Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. "

Edsger Dijkstra

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" The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. "

" I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. "

Manfred von Richthofen

" There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. "

" The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. "

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" Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. "

" People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. "

" It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. "

Robert B. Parker

" The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad. "

" You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. "

Richard Branson

" Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. "

" Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. "

Edsger Dijkstra

" I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. "

" I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship. "

Michael W. Smith

" Teaching is the royal road to learning. "

" I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. "

" I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. "

" Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. "

" The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. "

" Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution. "

Alexander De Croo

" We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. "

" What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning. "

" If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks. "

Stanley Druckenmiller

" We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. "

Lloyd Alexander

" Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. "

Ritchie Blackmore

" We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. "

Lucy Maud Montgomery

" I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. "

" I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can. "

" Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. "

Helen Frankenthaler