#learnin

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#how #i #learning #sail #ship

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#student #test #attitude

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#inspirational-attitude #lifelong-learning #reading #attitude

Boredom is for the selfish. ↗

— Patti Digh

#boredom-and-attitude #keep-learning #moving-forward #selfishness #attitude

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#enlightenment #landscape #learning #meditation #travel

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#competence #job-doing #productivity #business

First LEARN...then remove the 'L ↗

— Mohit Manke

#career #earn #inspirational #learn #learning

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#learning #life #self-knowledge #life