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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Thomas Pynchon (Slow Learner: Early Stories)
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Did you know that in space it's very, very cold? And there's no oxygen? And if an astronaut fell out of a shuttle without his suit he'd die right away?"
I'm a fast learner. "But that would never happen. Because astronauts are really, really careful."
George gives me a smile, the same dazzling sweet smile as his big brother, although at this point, with green teeth. "I might marry you," he allows. "Do you want a big family?
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Huntley Fitzpatrick (My Life Next Door)
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A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
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Tobsha Learner (The Witch of Cologne)
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People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Marie KondΕ (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing)
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The possibility of the dream gives strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
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Zig Ziglar
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No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!
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Germany Kent
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For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
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Orson Scott Card (Enderβs Game (Ender's Saga, #1))
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A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Iβve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say βselves.βbecause the fact is, Iβve never, even as a child, felt Iβm only one self, only one person. Iβve always felt Iβm quite a few more than one. For example, thereβs my jokey self, thereβs my morose and fed-up self,thereβs my lewd and disgusting self. Thereβs my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind-about-anything self. Thereβs my untidy-clothes-everywhere-all-over-my-room self, and my manically tidy self when I want my room to be minimalist and Zen to the nth degree. Thereβs my confidant, arrogant self and my polite and reasonable and good listener self. Thereβs my self-righteous self and my wickedly bad self, my flaky self and my bsentimental self. There are selfs I like and selfs I donβt like.thereβs my little-girl selfnwhonlikes to play silly games and thereβs my old-woman self when Iβm quite sure Iβm eighty and edging towards geriatric.
The self I show in action at any moment depends on where I am, who Iβm with, the circumstances of the situation and the mood Iβm in.
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Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1))
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The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.
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Ken Poirot
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If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
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Germany Kent
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The path of light is the quest for knowledge.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity
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Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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All the answers you seek in life. It is hidden a book.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Most school systems reward repeating the right answers to known problems, but doesnβt that simply teach learners to rely on questions that have clearly derivable answers?
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Roger Spitz (The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World)
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Self learner; reading.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Africa! Africa! Africa!
Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Africans must educate their citizens.
Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.
Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education.
Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?"
Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.
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Charles M. Schulz (My Life with Charlie Brown)
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Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
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Chip Kidd (The Learners)
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No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The more you learn, the more you want to learn.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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How can you be bored? There are so many books to read!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Read to find life treasures
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual
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Soke Behzad Ahmadi (KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin (Okinawan Styles, #3))
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With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, not instructed, but burdened by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many.
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Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better. Freedom and choice are good, but a life steeped in thinking, learning, and doing is better. Itβs not enough to say, βGo, do whatever you like.β To help children become skilled thinkers and learners, to help them become people who make and do, we need a life centered around those experiences. We need to show them how to accomplish the things they want to do. We need to prepare them to make the life they want.
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The key to a successful education is not remembering the sequence of battles in World War I or getting an A on the geometry test. A robust education is the ability to make meaningful use of any and all information.
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Julie Bogart (The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life)
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My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments
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Susan Beth Pfeffer (Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1))
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How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be a life-long learner. Whether you are seeking to achieve peace and harmony, learn a new technology to do your work faster, or design a strategy to blow your competitors out of the water, retraining is a pivotal way to strengthen your knowledge and realize your goals
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For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, "Because they're scared." I used to suspect that children's defeatism had something to do with their bad work in school, but I thought I could clear it away with hearty cries of "Onward! You can do it!" What I now see for the first time is the mechanism by which fear destroys intelligence, the way it affects a child's whole way of looking at, thinking about, and dealing with life. So we have two problems, not one: to stop children from being afraid, and then to break them of the bad thinking habits into which their fears have driven them.
What is most surprising of all is how much fear there is in school. Why is so little said about it. Perhaps most people do not recognize fear in children when they see it. They can read the grossest signs of fear; they know what the trouble is when a child clings howling to his mother; but the subtler signs of fear escaping them. It is these signs, in children's faces, voices, and gestures, in their movements and ways of working, that tell me plainly that most children in school are scared most of the time, many of them very scared. Like good soldiers, they control their fears, live with them, and adjust themselves to them. But the trouble is, and here is a vital difference between school and war, that the adjustments children make to their fears are almost wholly bad, destructive of their intelligence and capacity. The scared fighter may be the best fighter, but the scared learner is always a poor learner.
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I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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You will create yourself with continuous self-education.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Seekers of wisdom, seekers of life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Failure is not the end of life. It is the beginning of a greater success, if thy will persist.
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Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.
You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Live to read, read to learn.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. Itβs brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey the Holy instructions.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If homeschooling stops being a source of joy, begin by shifting your attention to the awesome adult you want to be. Just that shift can inject energy into a flagging homeschool.
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Julie Bogart (The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life)
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Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Connect to your children. The academics matter, but they follow. Your childrenβs happiness and safe, supportive relationship with you come first. Believe it or not, your children are happiest when they believe you are delighted by them.
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Julie Bogart (The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life)
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Song of myself
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff
that is fine,
One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the
largest the same,
A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and
hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest
joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin
leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,
A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;
At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen
off Newfoundland,
At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the
Texan ranch,
Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving
their big proportions,)
Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands
and welcome to drink and meat,
A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,
A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,
Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
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His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast learners, the naturally inclined, or the morally gifted.
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Terryl L. Givens (The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life)
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New adventures enrich oneβs life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Knowledge is learning without a limit.
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Be strong, be confident and be determined.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Read good books to improve yourself.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Books are more to treasure than cars.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Education is the key to self-development and empowerment
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Richard Felder is co-developer of the Index of Learning Styles. He suggests that there are eight different learning styles. Active learners absorb material best by applying it in some fashion or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to consider the material before doing anything with it. Sensing learners like learning facts and tend to be good with details. Intuitive learners like to identify the relationships between things and are comfortable with abstract concepts. Visual learners remember best what they see, while verbal learners do better with written and spoken explanations. Sequential learners like to learn by following a process from one logical step to the next, while global learners tend to make cognitive leaps, continuously taking in information until they βget it.
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Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Can you imagine a world without books to read?
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Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.
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Education stimulates self-study.
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Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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When youβre 24 you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.
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Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I can do it! I can do it!! I can do it!!!
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It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.
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Pursuit of desires, divine passions.
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Keep on exploring.
Keep on evolving.
Keep on experimenting.
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Knowledge is life. The more informed you are, the better you are in making the best decision.
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Desire for books, desire to read.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The inability to love ourselves has a negative impact on our ability to love others and receive love.
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Sarah Khalil A.A. (Journal Of Life)
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Letβs get one thing straight. Homeschooling is messy. The more kids you have, the messier it is.
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Julie Bogart (The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life)
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Learning is not only tied to reading thick old books, writing serious academic essays, and advancing in mathematics. Today, itβs just as critical to be innovative, to collaborate, and to imagine.
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A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement.
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Sometimes people can be negative, especially about my confidence. I trust myself, I refuse to obey, and I noticed there is a need to punish me for it. But haters are important because they show you you're doing something right. I'm scared of unanimity, artists who everybody likes. When you speak your mind and you're loud, you will attract negativity. But I have thick skin, I think the fact that I was severely bullied in my childhood helped me build strength and believe in my artistic vision. I deal with rejection very well. I have a lifelong vision and an unbreakable spirit.
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You were born a giver, don't die a taker.
You were born an earner, don't die a begger.
You were born a sharer, don't die a hoader.
You were born a lover, don't die a hater.
You were born a builder, don't die a destroyer.
You were born a creator, don't die an immitator.
You were born a leader, don't die a follower.
You were born a learner, don't die a teacher.
You were born a doer, don't die a talker.
You were born a dreamer, don't die a doubter.
You were born a winner, don't die a loser.
You were born an encourager, don't die a shamer.
You were born a defender, don't die an aggressor.
You were born a liberator, don't die an executioner.
You were born a soldier, don't die a murderer.
You were born an angel, don't die a monster.
You were born a protecter, don't die an attacker.
You were born an originator, don't die a repeater.
You were born an achiever, don't die a quitter.
You were born a victor, don't die a failure.
You were born a conqueror, don't die a warrior.
You were born a contender, don't die a joker.
You were born a producer, don't die a user.
You were born a motivator, don't die a discourager.
You were born a master, don't die an amateur.
You were born an intessessor, don't die an accusor.
You were born an emancipator, don't die a backstabber.
You were born a sympathizer, don't die a provoker.
You were born a healer, don't die a killer.
You were born a peacemaker, don't die an instigater.
You were born a deliverer, don't die a collaborator.
You were born a savior, don't die a plunderer.
You were born a believer, don't die a sinner.
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Because people are innately social and in search of meaning, our relationships and emotionsβnot rote memory or the right textbooksβare key to learning. In other words, when your child feels connected and happy, your child is learning the most.
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However, if youβre navigating the tension between your Bible and your life, or Jesusβ ancient ideas and the modern wayward church, or Godβs kingdom on earth and reality, then welcome. Sometimes itβs better to wade through murky waters with a fellow explorer than with an authority. Questions can still be investigated with another learner instead of with one who has only answers.
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In high schools it seems that half of teachers lecture most or all of the time.* Lectures are not always the best method of learning, and they are not enough to develop students into lifelong learners. If you spend all of your school years being fed information and are never given the opportunity to question it, you wonβt develop the tools for rethinking that you need in life.
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one thing I've learner," she said, "you have to talk about these things while they're fresh. Or you'll never talk about them. I'm going to teach you how to talk about them, because it's going to get harder and harder the longer you wait, and it's going to fester inside you, and you're always going to think you're to blame. You'll be wrong, of course, but you'll always think it.
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What about you, Jude?β a few people had asked him, early in the term, and he knew enough by thenβhe was a fast learnerβto simply shrug and say, with a smile, βItβs too boring to get into.β He was astonished but relieved by how easily they accepted that, and grateful too for their self-absorption. None of them really wanted to listen to someone elseβs story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.
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Purpose in general is for me to do something I have fun in doing. I want to be excited to wake up. I want to be excited to do my work. I want to feel like I'm playing when I'm doing my work. I'm very curious so I want to feel like a constant learner. I like having great conversations with interesting people [...]; I love creating; artistically creating; and it allows me to continually stay in excitable mode.
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If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your child to go, she learns that therapy is a natural choice for people who want to live conscious, healthy lives. Therapy is good emotional and mental hygiene - just as teeth cleanings and going to the gym are good for physical health. Nothing to be ashamed of!
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Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false messiah.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.
Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion....this is the place to go now.
But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."
The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution it not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.
Everything above may be wrong!
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Every teacher are once a student, Every professional are once an amateur, Every rich are once a poor, Every motorist are once a learner, Every friend are once a stranger, Every ex are once a lover, Every today are once a tomorrow, Every emigrate are once a citizen, Every dead are once alive, Every house are once a land, Every super star are once an upcoming, Every winner are once a dreamer and every start always have an end. Stay humble and Positive, afterall life is vanity- Goals Rider
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Over the course of three decades watching kids walk into my schools, I have decided that I want them to be lifelong learners be passionate be ready to take risks be able to problem-solve and think critically be able to look at things differently be able to work independently and with others be creative care and want to give back to their community persevere have integrity and self-respect have moral courage be able to use the world around them well speak well, write well, read well, and work well with numbers truly enjoy their life and their work.
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On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, and that topic takes over my life - fabric scraps scattered on the floor, little jars of white sludge cuddled by blankets on my kitchen countertops. When I learned to play guitar in my thirties, no one had to schedule my practices. My guitar lived on a stand in the living room and I tormented our ears multiple times a day until my fingers bled. Passion for learning has that fiery, consuming, can't-stop quality.
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One of the most intriguing ideas in the developmental sciences over the past decades is the phenomenon of the βJ-shaped curve.β19 While observing children learning to master new skills in dozens of domains (math, writing, the arts), psychologists noticed a surprising pattern: as a learner struggles to master difficult new challenges, there is often an initial decline in skill. Errors are made on tasks that previously seemed easy, and the learner feels more βstupidβ than ever before. This is the dip that forms the middle part of the βJ.β But it turns out that the βstupid mistakes,β in retrospect, were nothing more than growth errors. Once the learner gets past the dip, performance rises rapidly to new heights.
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He was the most astonishing contradiction of components Iβd ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent regarding his own abilities but not to the point that he couldnβt produceβhe was as prolific an artist (yes, an artist, and I never use the term, especially regarding people I like) Iβve ever seen. But I could feel it. Everything he sketched, penciled, inked, madeβwas a payment, one he could scarcely afford; as if it physically hurt him to put pencil to paper. Yet that only seemed to spur him on, to live far beyond his means. He was unable not to. For Sketch, to draw was to breath, and so the air became leadβsilvery in the right light, dark soot in the wrong; heavy, slick and malleableβinto shapes he brought together in glorious orchestration, with a childβs eye and a rocket scientistβs precision, all fortified by a furious melancholy, a quiet engine of sourceless shame and humility.
When it came to anotherβs work, he longed to praise it but then couldnβt resist critiquing it all within an inch of its life, analyzing deficiencies with uncontrollable abandon and laser accuracy. He was sharp as his Radio 914 pen nibs, and as pointed.
And then heβd apologize. Oh, he would apologize: Oh my GOD, forgive me, please donβt hate me, Iβm SORRY, donβt listen to me, why am I saying things, what do I know, I donβt know anything, why do you listen to me you should just tell me to shut UP, Iβm awful, forgive me, you hate me, donβt you? Tell the truth. Please donβt hate me. Please donβt. Please.
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In the world of togas, sandals, the Parthenon, temples, and little white homes perched on hillsides overlooking the sea, discipleship permeated Greek life-from aristocrats to peasants, from philosophers to tradesmen.
In the first century, the apostle Paul stood on Mars Hill and said, "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.... I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you" (Acts 17:22-23). Paul's speech demonstrates that the Greek philosophers were confused about God. But they were also astute in passing on their confusion as they lived out discipleship and even created some of its language and technique.
The Greek masters' use of mathetes, or disciple: As explored in chapter 1, mathetes is translated "disciple." We can find the concept of disciple-a person following a master-among the great masters of Greece. Plato, Socrates, and Herodotus all used disciple to mean "learner" or "one who is a diligent student." These and other Greek
philosophers generally understood that the disciple's life involved apprenticeship, a relationship of submission, and a life of demanding
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