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“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“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.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.”

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Author:Azim Premji

“In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.”

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Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.”

“Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.”

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Author:T. Harv Eker

“I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.”

“Your world is as big as you make it.”

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Author:Georgia Douglas Johnson

“A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.”

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Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry”

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Author:Andy Grove

“When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.”

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Author:Richard E. Pattis