"Young people should be careful in their reading, as old people in eating their food. They should not eat too much. They should chew it well. (Winston Churchill)
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery over oneself." (Da Vinci)
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that I learn from him." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"If you can't fly, then run
If you can't run, then walk
If you can't walk, then crawl
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." (Nelson Mandela)
"There's always room for improvement, it's the biggest room in the house."
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."
"He who learns the most, earns the most." (Les Brown)
"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Mark Twain)
"If you want to master something, teach it." (Yoga Bhajan)
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn." (Benjamin Franklin)
"To study the self is to forget the self."
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." (Epictetus)
"Learning never exhausts the mind." (Leonardo Da Vinci)
"I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously." (Bill Gates)
"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation" (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
“And so when it comes to growth and adventure, it isn’t about the things you do along the way that matter, it’s about who you become as a result of doing those things.” (Sean Biava)
"A seed grows with no sound but a tree falls with huge noise. Destruction has noise, but creation is quiet. This is the power of silence…… grow silently." (Confucius)
“That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.” (Warren Buffett)
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it - but all that had gone before.” (Jacob Riis)
"The way to win is to master that which can never be won."
- Things you can never finish:
- Perfecting your craft
- Learning all you can
- Maximizing your potential
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” (Pablo Picasso)
“It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in the war.” (Bruce Lee)
"People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old." (Anonymous)
“I’ve come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess. What I am best at is the art of learning.”
"Progress requires unlearning." (James Clear)
"If you're not unrecognizable every 7 years, then your not living."
"Be not afraid of growing slowly." (Chinese Proverb)
“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” (Charlie Munger)
“I don’t divide the world into the weak or strong, or the successes and the failures.... I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.” (Benjamin Barber, political theorist)
"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you." (Charlie Munger)
"You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better." (Carol Dweck)
"....identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly." (Susan Cain)
"If you want to make progress in any area, you need to be willing to give up your best ideas from time to time."
"The struggle is great, the task is divine, to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility." (Epicetus)
“When it comes to learning, indulging your curiosity is just as important as paying attention.” (Rachel del Valle)
"The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.” (Steven Pressfield, The War of Art)
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