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"Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."
"The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind."
"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
"Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail."
"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
"In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education."
"You won't learn if you think you already know everything."
"People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage."
"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
"If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want."
"You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love."
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
"In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together."
"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it."
"An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big."
"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side."
"It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first."