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"We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere."
"So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
"Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art."
"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"
"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it."
"The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value."
"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."
"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here."
"What we do not understand we do not possess."
"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading."
"I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text."
"I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God."
"There is only one way to learn... It's through action."
"You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you."
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
"The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER."
"From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request."
"The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality."
