The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.
At times when we believe we are studying something, we are only being receptive to a kind of daydreaming.
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.
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.
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.
After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.
You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
Be hungrier for improvement than approval. Be hungrier for lessons than successes.
Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if— especially if— it’s uncomfortable. Be part of what’s going on around you. Feast on it, adjust for it. There’s no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons…
If you’re not still learning, you’re already dying.
Absorbing what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. A student is self-critical and self-motivated, always trying to improve his understanding so that he can move on to the next topic, the next challenge. A real student is also his own teacher and his own critic. There i…
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.
Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.