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There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No… — Jack Nicklaus
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on… — Marcus Aurelius
There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to… — Celeste De Blasis
It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have… — Jim Dodge
We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences… — Shakti Gawain
You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%. — Jan Carlzon
Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to… — Nicholas Negroponte
One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it… — Bernard Marcus
An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our… — Crowder
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need. — Elbert Hubbard
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. — John Amos Comenius
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects… — William James
But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain… — William James
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of… — Lev S. Vygotsky
The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. — Temple Grandin

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