#learnin

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

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

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three.... ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#learning #school #vp-shunt #writing #age

The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #know-thyself #learning #overcoming-fears #self-discovery

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest [hu]man has learned anything of absolute value by living. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#ageing #learning #youth #age

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? ↗

— Plato

#learning #truth #anger

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#personal-growth #art