Quotes about lear
learning order understanding
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it. Soren Kierkegaard
learning fancy bugs
Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. Rosamund Pike
learning fancy algorithms
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
learning numbers errors
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time. Tony Hoare
learning significant involved
The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be. Stephen Covey
learning earth grows
Why stay on the earth except to grow. Robert Browning
learning men wind
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
learning grieving funeral
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
learning sight editors
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight. Richard Stallman
learning reality expectations
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
learning silence ive-learned
Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Rainer Maria Rilke
learning together chess
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both. Savielly Tartakower
learners
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. Sidney Poitier
learning science superficial-knowledge
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.). Tobias Smollett
learning knowing may
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. Socrates
learning wind broken
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. John Quincy Adams
learning science discovery
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. Norbert Wiener
learning answers authority
Answers given with authority negate the search for truth. Neil Innes
learning air water
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. John Muir
learning important viewpoints
You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them. John Romero
learning grace curiosity
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace. Margaret J. Wheatley
learning men polite
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry
learning house words-of-wisdom
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. Maya Angelou
learning grace followers
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? Max de Pree
learning tree bamboo
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant. Matsuo Basho
learning life-is thorough
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning. Plautus
learning thinking mind
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound. Plato
learning hopeful inquiry
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Paulo Freire
learning reflection understanding
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
learning intelligent creative
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci
learning men heaven
We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence. John Taylor
learning school long
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. John Taylor Gatto
learning unique challenges
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.