Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The doer alone learneth.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.