#earning

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings of flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. ↗

— Stephen King

#changing #king #learning #stephen #change

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#learning #beauty

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#hardest #learning #practice #training #transformation

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#learning #the-chronicles-of-prydain #wisdom #change

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#embarrassment #learning #life #time #change

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#personal-change #psychology #social-change #social-learning-theory #change

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#learning #change

I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten. ↗

— Ian Jukes

#jukes #kindergarten #learning #change

Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro! ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#learning #change

Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#learning #life #change