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I thought you didn't know how to drive a carriage," she shouted over the pounding of hooves.
“Nonsense,” Nathaniel shouted back. “I’m a fast learner when properly motivated.
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Margaret Rogerson (Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1))
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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.
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Israelmore Ayivor
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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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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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Keep calm and keep learning.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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My books, my paradise!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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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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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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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. It’s 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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I am happy to have all the books I need to read.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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New adventures enrich one’s 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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You are learning to be an expert.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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It takes persistent practice to be skilful in the act.
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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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If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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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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Push beyond your limits and surpass your own expectations.
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Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo
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Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Let's go to the Next Level)
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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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Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Ladder)
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Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Lift yourself to great heights.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The power of writing is phenomenal.
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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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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Education stimulates self-study.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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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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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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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Pursuit of desires, divine passions.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Keep on exploring.
Keep on evolving.
Keep on experimenting.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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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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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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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 more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Learners who are successful may indeed be highly motivated. But can we conclude that they became successful because of their motivation? It is also plausible that early success heightened their motivation, or that both success and motivation are due to their special aptitude for language learning or the favourable context in which they were learning.
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Patsy M. Lightbown (How Languages are Learned)
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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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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I was, at the end of the day, a slow learner, an extremely slow learner afflicted with the lack of self-awareness to even realize it. I always thought I knew it all, but I was only ever motivated into action by one of two things: pleasure or pain.
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Mark Lanegan (Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir)
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We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
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Ogwo David Emenike (The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure)
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Winners are people who believe in themselves and are ready to take risks!
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Avijeet Das
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Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Dare to climb higher heights.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Self education is holy mission.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You can learn at any age.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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God's grace is your inner strength.
Go ahead and pursue your God-given dreams.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We must keep on learning for self-development.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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My wish is to create a huge library of books.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Read, re-read!
Every word you read is a food for thy soul!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Leaders are readers and learners are earners.
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Janna Cachola
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Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.
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William Zinsser
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I have falling in love with reading.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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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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Goals Rider
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Givers are worth more than takers.
Earners are worth more than beggars.
Sharers are worth more than hoarders.
Lovers are worth more than haters.
Builders are worth more than destroyers.
Creators are worth more than imitators.
Leaders are worth more than followers.
Learners are worth more than teachers.
Doers are worth more than talkers.
Dreamers are worth more than doubters.
Winners are worth more than losers.
Encouragers are worth more than detractors.
Defenders are worth more than aggressors.
Liberators are worth more than jailers.
Soldiers are worth more than murderers.
Angels are worth more than monsters.
Protectors are worth more than attackers.
Originators are worth more than copiers.
Achievers are worth more than quitters.
Victors are worth more than failures.
Conquerors are worth more than warriors.
Contenders are worth more than spectators.
Producers are worth more than users.
Motivators are worth more than discouragers.
Masters are worth more than amateurs.
Intercessors are worth more than accusers.
Emancipators are worth more than backstabbers.
Sympathizers are worth more than provokers.
Healers are worth more than killers.
Peacemakers are worth more than instigators.
Deliverers are worth more than collaborators.
Saviors are worth more than invaders.
Believers are worth more than sinners.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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For a learner, every obstacle, every failure, every difficulty, every enemy, every stumbling block turns into lessons and opportunities. For a non-learner, every opportunity, every chance, every solution, every path is nothing more than a hurdle.It's your attitude that makes the difference.
-Emit Eht
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Ratna Srivastava (Emit Eht)
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Encouragement during the early years is crucial because beginners are still figuring out whether they want to commit or cut bait. Accordingly, Bloom and his research team found that the best mentors at this stage were especially warm ans supportive: 'perhaps the major quality of these teachers was that they made the initial learning very pleasant and rewarding. much of the introduction to the field was as playful activity, and the learning at the beginning of this stage was like a game'.
A degree of autonomy during the early years is also important. Longitudinal studies tracking learners confirm that overbearing parents and teachers erode intrinsic motivation. Kids whose parents let them make their own choices about what they like are more likely to develop interests later identified as a passion.
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Angela Duckworth (Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)
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educators, we have to recognize that we help maintain the achievement gap when we don’t teach advance cognitive skills to students we label as “disadvantaged” because of their language, gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Many children start school with small learning gaps, but as they progress through school, the gap between African American and Latino and White students grows because we don’t teach them how to be independent learners. Based on these labels, we usually do the following (Mean & Knapp, 1991): Underestimate what disadvantaged students are intellectually capable of doing As a result, we postpone more challenging and interesting work until we believe they have mastered “the basics” By focusing only on low-level basics, we deprive students of a meaningful or motivating context for learning and practicing higher order thinking processes
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Zaretta Lynn Hammond (Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students)
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Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.
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Elaine Cooper (When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today)
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a study by Marie Guilloteaux and Zoltán Dörnyei (2008) who explored the links between teachers’ motivational practice and students’ motivation for L2 learning. It was a large-scale study with 27 teachers and over 1,300 learners in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Korea. The teachers’ motivational strategies were described using a classroom observation scheme—the Motivation Orientation of Language Teaching (MOLT). MOLT identified 25 motivational practices used by the teachers that were relatively easy to define and to observe.
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Patsy M. Lightbown (How Languages are Learned)
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Possible explanations for talented language learning fall into two general areas. One view says: What matters is a person's sense of mission and dedication to language learning. You don't need to describe high performers as biologically exceptional, because what they do is a product of practice. Anyone can become a foreign-language expert - even an adult. (...) The other view says: Something neurological is going on. We may not know exactly what the mechanisms are, but we can't explain exceptional outcomes fully through training or motivation.
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Michael Erard (Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners)
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In their writing on education, Deci and Ryan proceed from the principle that humans are natural learners and children are born creative and curious, “intrinsically motivated for the types of behaviors that foster learning and development.” This idea is complicated, however, by the fact that part of learning anything, be it painting or programming or eighth-grade algebra, involves a lot of repetitive practice, and repetitive practice is usually pretty boring. Deci and Ryan acknowledge that many of the tasks that teachers ask students to complete each day are not inherently fun or satisfying; it is the rare student who feels a deep sense of intrinsic motivation when memorizing her multiplication tables.
It is at these moments that extrinsic motivation becomes important: when behaviors must be performed not for the inherent satisfaction of completing them, but for some separate outcome. Deci and Ryan say that when students can be encouraged to internalize those extrinsic motivations, the motivations become increasingly powerful. This is where the psychologists return to their three basic human needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. When teachers are able to create an environment that promotes those three feelings, they say, students exhibit much higher levels of motivation.
And how does a teacher create that kind of environment? Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers “maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement” while minimizing students’ feelings of coercion and control. Students feel competent, they say, when their teachers give them tasks that they can succeed at but that aren’t too easy — challenges just a bit beyond their current abilities. And they feel a sense of relatedness when they perceive that their teachers like and value and respect them.
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Paul Tough (Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why)
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Student-engaged assessment involves students in underst anding and in vesting in their own growth. It changes the primary role of assessment from evaluating and ranking students to motivating them to learn. It empowers students with the understanding of where they need to go as learners and how to get there. It builds the independence, critical thinking skills, perseverance, and self-reflective understanding students need for college and careers and that is required by the Common Core State Standards. And, because student-engaged assess ment practices demand reflection, collaboration, and responsibility, they shepherd students toward becoming positive citizens and human beings.
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Ron Berger (Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment)
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Here is a checklist for helping your students maintain and boost their motivation. Relate each item to the key motivators of agency (A), relatedness (R) and competence (C). Some items may be a mixture of more than one motivator. 1 Encourage students to get to know each other and talk to each other about their lives and what matters to them. Join in yourself. 2 Suggest they keep a learning journal in which they reflect on what they have learnt, what activities they have liked or disliked, what is affecting their learning. 3 Allow class time for them to report on their learning to a partner or in small groups 4 Exploit the motivational tools that accompany course books, such as progress tests, ‘can do’ self-evaluative checklists and CEF-based portfolios. There is more on this in the section on coaching with a course book. 5 Wherever possible give your students a choice of what they do in class and for homework (whatever their age!), either as a group by voting for one activity which everyone will do or allowing them individually to choose different activities. 6 Help students set goals for themselves, as a group and individually. Encourage them to write these down and check their progress. 7 Offer your students the opportunity to prepare for an external exam which relates to their needs, such as the Trinity GESE exams for spoken English or the Cambridge ESOL exams. 8 Ask your students how they are feeling about their English on a regular basis. Ask them where their motivation levels are from one week to the next. Get them to ask each other. Be a role model by paying attention to your own motivation!
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Daniel Barber (From English Teacher to Learner Coach)
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Focus intently and beat procrastination. Use the Pomodoro Technique (remove distractions, focus for 25 minutes, take a break). Avoid multitasking unless you find yourself needing occasional fresh perspectives. Create a ready-to-resume plan when an unavoidable interruption comes up. Set up a distraction-free environment. Take frequent short breaks. Overcome being stuck. When stuck, switch your focus away from the problem at hand, or take a break to surface the diffuse mode. After some time completely away from the problem, return to where you got stuck. Use the Hard Start Technique for homework or tests. When starting a report or essay, do not constantly stop to edit what is flowing out. Separate time spent writing from time spent editing. Learn deeply. Study actively: practice active recall (“retrieval practice”) and elaborating. Interleave and space out your learning to help build your intuition and speed. Don’t just focus on the easy stuff; challenge yourself. Get enough sleep and stay physically active. Maximize working memory. Break learning material into small chunks and swap fancy terms for easier ones. Use “to-do” lists to clear your working memory. Take good notes and review them the same day you took them. Memorize more efficiently. Use memory tricks to speed up memorization: acronyms, images, and the Memory Palace. Use metaphors to quickly grasp new concepts. Gain intuition and think quickly. Internalize (don’t just unthinkingly memorize) procedures for solving key scientific or mathematical problems. Make up appropriate gestures to help you remember and understand new language vocabulary. Exert self-discipline even when you don’t have any. Find ways to overcome challenges without having to rely on self-discipline. Remove temptations, distractions, and obstacles from your surroundings. Improve your habits. Plan your goals and identify obstacles and the ideal way to respond to them ahead of time. Motivate yourself. Remind yourself of all the benefits of completing tasks. Reward yourself for completing difficult tasks. Make sure that a task’s level of difficulty matches your skill set. Set goals—long-term goals, milestone goals, and process goals. Read effectively. Preview the text before reading it in detail. Read actively: think about the text, practice active recall, and annotate. Win big on tests. Learn as much as possible about the test itself and make a preparation plan. Practice with previous test questions—from old tests, if possible. During tests: read instructions carefully, keep track of time, and review answers. Use the Hard Start Technique. Be a pro learner. Be a metacognitive learner: understand the task, set goals and plan, learn, and monitor and adjust. Learn from the past: evaluate what went well and where you can improve.
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Barbara Oakley (Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything)
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If you are teaching in a free-range setting, your learners are probably volunteers, and probably want to be in your classroom. The exercise therefore isn’t how to motivate them, but how to not demotivate them. Unfortunately, you can do this by accident much more easily than you might think.
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Greg Wilson (Teaching Tech Together)
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In everyone's CV, It does not show how many attempts they have tried and
failed at something, but it only mention when they have succeeded.
It does not say how many attempts they did before getting their drivers license,
metric certificate, Degree, PHD, Album, Business, or breakthrough. If you have
failed at something now, don't give up. Try again and again until you get it right,
because that is the only time it will be worth mentioning and it will count.
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D.J. Kyos
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One difference is that individuals living in multilingual communities seem to settle on an optimal cognitive load. The hyperpolyglot possesses a similar patchwork of linguistic proficiencies. Yet he or she exceeds this optimum with a conspicuous consumption of brain power (...) For multilinguals, learning languages is an act of joining society. There's no motive, no separable 'will to plasticity' that's distinct from what it means to be a part of that society. Being a hyperpolyglot means exactly the opposite. The hyperpolyglot's pursuit of many languages may be a bridge to the rest of the world, but it walls him off from his immediate language community.
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Michael Erard (Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners)
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To begin, look over the chapters by glancing at the content on the pages. Set aside about 30 minutes every four to five hours or three times a day and look at the bold words, pictures, and highlighted sentences. Nursing exams generally test on multiple chapters so it is important you start this process as soon as you can. Ideally, begin immediately after you have taken your last exam so you can get a head start on new material. This step helps you recognize the words and familiarizes you with the content. After several times of looking at a word read the definition. As you read the definition notice how you are able to focus on what the word means. Doing this simple step can eliminate reading without understanding. We must see a word several times before our brain flags it as important. That is why after the third or fourth time you look over information you finally say to yourself, “Okay, I have heard and seen this several times and I must know more about it!” Once you have reached that point you will find yourself directing all of your attention to the word’s definition. And that motivation is because you have seen it so many times. There is still a problem though, because in nursing school there are thousands upon thousands of words. By just reading you rely on vision to get you through and retain all of this knowledge. Although this is possible, and has probably worked in the past, this is not an ideal way to study for nursing classes. After you look at the words and read the definitions a few times, go back and underline each word and definition. This helps you engage the body by adding movement. Then say the words and definitions out loud. Doing so engages the three senses of sight, touch, and sound. You are also using all three learning styles, which are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. No matter what type of learner you are predominately, if you constantly use all three styles it helps to lock the information into your brain. I have also noticed that these steps train you to have a photographic memory. This is especially important when there is a long chart you need to memorize. For example, in pediatric nursing you need to know a very extensive growth and development chart, and if you do not have kids yet it can be extremely foreign. At first, incorporating this new study method may be challenging. But once you start using it and see your exam results rise, you will never turn back. After
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Caroline Porter Thomas (How to Succeed in Nursing School (Nursing School, Nursing school supplies, Nursing school gifts, Nursing school books, Become a nurse, Become a registered nurse,))
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Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life now.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #2))
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The greatest language learners are motivated, humble and determined.
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Paul R. Beeman (The Wordless Language Learning Guide)
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Fear of appearing stupid, ignorant, or childish is a nemesis of learning, and language learning is no exception. Frustration is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be final. It’s always a letdown when a language learner loses motivation, stops engaging in the target language, or abandons the endeavor altogether. It follows that learning how to manage our emotions and take a long view of situations (i.e., “respect the process”) is critical to weathering the storms of acquiring a new skill. Like a baby learning how to walk, we deserve credit for every milestone we attain and for mustering the courage to confront the unknown.
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Benjamin Batarseh (The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me)
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Feedback is most powerful when it is linked to a goal and it informs the learner how they are progressing toward that goal. Feedback that compares the learner’s outcomes to the outcomes of others draws attention to the self and has been shown to reduce motivation for learning.
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Ruth Colvin Clark (Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals)
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If you think you have enough knowledge, you are still ignorant; always be a learner.
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Shiva Negi
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Life will always teach you good lessons and if you are a good learner, you will become wiser.
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Gift Gugu Mona (The Extensive Philosophy of Life: Daily Quotes)
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Researchers have used the analogy of different sizes of sticky notes to represent different learners’ working memories (Alloway & Alloway, 2015).
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Susanne Croasdaile (Building Executive Function and Motivation in the Middle Grades: A Universal Design for Learning Approach)
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Never underestimate a slow learner.
Excellence takes time.
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Janna Cachola
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We also have the power to help students to monitor and maintain their motivation levels out of class time. As teachers we can control materials and activities in class to optimise motivation; as coaches we need to help our students to do this for themselves. We can, for example, raise their awareness of the options for reading English on the internet and the possible approaches to working with texts they choose. Examples of this are the activities 'Easy Reading' and 'Authentic Reading' (Student's Book activities 23 and 22). Another activity, Motivation Meter (activity 4, suggested lesson format here), helps learners monitor their motivation levels and analyse what influences these fluctuations.
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Daniel Barber (From English Teacher to Learner Coach)
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Goals have been set and a plan of action agreed upon; this constitutes the setting up period of the programme and will take some time at the beginning. The coach’s role now shifts to one of monitoring the learners as they pursue their goals and practise English as they have planned to do. Just as the weight watchers weigh themselves at each meeting, students need to measure their progress, celebrate success and, when they don’t achieve their goals, reflect on why. The coach is there to lend support and guidance. For this to happen, lessons should now regularly address the learners’ language lives outside of class. This needs to be established as part of the routine of the classroom. Decide when and how often you wish to coach them, but we suggest a minimum of 10% of class time devoted to it. That means at least 20 minutes a week if you have lessons 3 hours a week. In this time, you can: • let your learners share how they are feeling about English. Revisit the activities in the Motivate! section. • let learners share their favourite activities and techniques for learning English. One format for letting learners do this is suggested in the activity 'Swap Shop'. Another is to nominate a different student each week to tell the class about one technique, website, activity, book or other resource that they have used to practise English and to talk about why and how they use it. • set specific activities for language practice from the Student’s Book • tell students to try out any activities they like from the Student’s Book • demonstrate specific activities and techniques from websites and other sources. This can be more effective than just telling them. If they see how good it is and try it out for themselves in class, they will be more likely to do it on their own.
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Daniel Barber (From English Teacher to Learner Coach)
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Explore the endless possibilities in life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Ushakova (1994: 154) puts it more poetically: ‘Second language is looking into the windows cut out by the first language.’ Hence, ignoring or denying the positive influence of the L1 is seen as counterproductive. What is more, from a motivational point of view, referencing the learners’ L1 validates their linguistic and cultural identity, while proscribing it might be considered a form of linguistic imperialism.
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Scott Thornbury (Big Questions in ELT)