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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 6: Become Life Long Learners

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.  

- Abigail Adams  

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  

- Mortimer J Adler  

It is always in season for old men to learn.  

- Aeschylus  

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.  

- F Albrecht  

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.  

- Newton D Baker  

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.  

- Bible  

Be quick to learn and wise to know.  

- George Burns  

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be, the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.  

- Tony Buzan  

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.  

- Tony Buzan  

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.  

- L Carte  

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.  

- Lord Chesterfield  

One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.  

- Lord Chesterfield  

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true ''gift'' in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.  

- Cathy Lee Crosby  

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.  

- Anthony J D'Angelo  

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.  

- Anthony J D'Angelo  

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.  

- W Edwards Deming  

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.  

- Henry L Doherty  

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.  

- Henry L Doherty  

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.  

- Rene Dubos  

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.  

- Albert Einstein  

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.  

- Henry Ford  

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

The things which hurt, instruct.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.  

- R Buckminster Fuller  

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.  

- Bill Gates  

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.  

- Michael J Gelb  

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.  

- Saint Gregory The Great  

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.  

- Robert Heinlein  

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.  

- Rabbi Hillel  

Learning is a livelihood.  

- Hitopadesa  

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  

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  

- Thomas H Huxley  

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.  

- Ken Keyes Junior  

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.  

- Rudyard Kipling  

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.  

- John Naisbitt  

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.  

- Sydney Joseph Perelman  

All learning has an emotional base.  

- Plato  

We learn by teaching.  

- Proverb  

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  

- Chinese Proverb  

Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.  

- English Proverb  

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.  

- Latin Proverb  

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.  

- Jim Rohn  

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.  

- Barbara Sher  

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.  

- Lillian Smith  

I grow old learning something new every day.  

- Solon  

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.  

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon  

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life, to learn something is a joy to me.  

- J August Strindberg  

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.  

- Brian Tracy  

If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.  

- Source Unknown  

It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.  

- Source Unknown  

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.  

- Source Unknown  

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.  

- Abigail Van Buren  

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.  

- Denis Waitley  

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.  

- Denis Waitley  

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing, not moving toward excellence.  

- Denis Waitley  

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.  

- Patrick White  

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.  

- Eugene S Wilson  

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  

- John Wooden  

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.  

- Jon Kabat Zinn  

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