learning on Achievement

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A...

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

Peter Drucker suggests that we should always sustain two streams of learning and self-improvement. And though he is speaking specifically about work and career, what he says is equally applicable whet...

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

There are few things in life as unenlightening as the postgame interview. Don’t get me wrong, they aren’t always bad. Some athletes and coaches can be quite insightful. I’ve seen real poise and humili...

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

It should be the goal of the writers of archaeology to make the dead come alive, not to put the living to sleep.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

The bottom line is this: never grow complacent. Never grow tired of learning. As soon as we stop learning we lose the capacity to grow and mature in our work and our relationships. This continual lear...

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

Experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Wisdom Song It is not too far a stretch to imagine an eager young person sitting at the feet of a well-seasoned elder and receiving the words of thi...

Since the advent of widespread public education in the West, it seems that many people express dissatisfaction with their schooling more often than they share positive experiences. This makes it all t...

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom: Enlighten by your Holy Spirit those who teach and those who learn, that, rejoicing in the knowledge of your truth, they may worship you and serve you from gen...