Learning Quotes

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes."

- Warren Buffett

"If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did."

- Gordon Ramsay

"I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover."

- Jose Andres

"A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there."

- Wolfgang Puck

"I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food."

- Paul Prudhomme

"If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did."

- Gordon Ramsay

"To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing."

- Warren Bennis

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

- Abigail Adams

"It’s not so much what children learn through play, but what they won’t learn if we don’t give them the chance to play. Many functional skills like literacy and arithmetic can be learned either through play or through instruction – the issue is the amount of stress on the child. However, many coping skills like compassion, self-regulation, self-confidence, the habit of active engagement, and the motivation to learn and be literate cannot be instructed. They can only be learned through self-directed experience (i.e. play)."

- Susan J. Oliver

"True play is child-initiated and child-directed. It can occur on a blank playground. It can occur with a few tires. Children can play – and do play – when all they are given is space and time."

- Heather Shumaker

"Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas…during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations."

- Judith Roden

"The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them – the things they need to know – and forget the rest."

- Daniel Quinn

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."

- Leo Buscaglia

"To give a child a mechanical toy is equivalent to playing for him"

- Walter Wood

"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank."

- Anton Chekhov

"We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn."

- Peter O. Gray

"Movement is the door to learning."

- Paul E. Dennison

"Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience."

- Joseph Cornell

"What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it."

- John Holt

"When we deny children play, we are denying them the right to understand the world."

- Erika & Nicholas Christakis

"Children always learn, but not necessarily what you want them to learn."

- Dr.Lillian Katz

"Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls."

- Erin Kenny

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"The only way to learn is to keep trying new things and making mistakes."

"We learned the principles of business not from a book or a university course, but from a walking, talking encyclopaedia! Thank you so much for what you taught us."

"You have been such a great mentor that we’ll be very sorry to see you go. The only positive thing about your departure is that other people can now learn from you as well."

"Autumn is a time to harvest the lessons of the year."

- Unknown

"Those things you learn without joy you will forget easily."