Quotes about Learning

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster than anything you can manage now. It should enable you to vary your rate of reading in accordance with the nature and complexity of the material.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.