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“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

Feels Self Feelings Hate Order Bits Learning Humility Taught Self Improvement Determination Improvement Barriers Accord Inferiority

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.”

Ifs Feels Wisdom Success Learning Shame Cease Acquire

Author:Seneca the Younger

“most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.”

People Knows Feels Made Care Education Learning Taught Ignorant

Book:Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.”

Way Feels Mind Two Learning Subjects Stupid Humility Ignorance Approach Embrace Ridicule Open Mind Two Ways

Book:Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

“Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.”

Ifs Way Feels Facts Feelings Problem Desire Learning Buddhism Promise Normal Okay Experience Fulfillment Realistic Right Way No Problem Outlook

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.”

People Way Needs Feels Sometimes Lasts Chance Learning Style Development Comfortable Familiar Learners

Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”

“It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.”

Ifs Feels Moving Fear Challenges Courage Learning Bravery Inspired Scared Actresses Moving Forward Not Afraid Encouraging No Fear Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Overcoming Fear

Author:Nina Dobrev

“When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.”

Feels Littles Home Happens Universe Education Learning Comfortable Something New Nests New Day

Book:A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

Source: A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Firsts Lost Education Learning

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”

Feels Fear Sleep Learning Fate Waking

Author:Theodore Roethke

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”

“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.”

People Thinking Want Inspirational Feels Persons Inspiration Action Learning Behavior

Book:Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

Source: Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”

“My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!”

Ifs Feels Wanted Inspiring Acting Learning Talent Fine Clothes Illusion Thirds Rate Actresses

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”

“You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells Littles School Order Leadership Education Learning Alive Streets Comfortable Concepts One Way Mediocrity

Author:Fiona Wood

“Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble”

Thinking Feels Looks Teach Learning Trouble Train Chess Excitement Initials

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.”

Feels Believe Heart Song Learning My Heart

Author:Ray Charles

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”

“Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar”

Feels Sometimes Fun Learning Masters Fool Wake Up Guitar Singer Songwriters

Author:Tommy Emmanuel

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”

Knows Feels Mean Grows Learning Wise Subjects Judging Instruments Faults Self Knowledge Wiser

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.”

Knows Feels Should Action Decision Learning Figures Like You Wall Lessons I've Learned

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.”

Feels Reason Body Happens Learning Hair Discipline Extremes Experiments Repetition Sculptors Mopping

Author:Janine Antoni

“Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.”

People Ifs Feels Real Shows Remember Learning Risk Teaching Willing Wind Adversity Manage Capability Threatened Kites Do Not Fear Trust And Respect Rise Against

Author:Jan Carlzon

“The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Years Helping Happens Learning Explanation Help Me Receptive Anything Can Happen

Author:Anouk Aimee

“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”

Feels Should May Important Spiritual Waiting Knowledge Learning Becoming Activity Quiet Empty Work Out Spiritual Wisdom Receiving Quietness Peace And Quiet

Author:Rodney Collin

“When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general, the later chapters contain more reliable information than the earlier ones do. The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. Once you understand a simple but false rule, it will not be hard to supplement that rule with its exceptions.”

“I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.”

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”