“Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.” YearsPersonsDoneSuccessNextFoundLiteratureBusinessLearningSuccessfulHeardTeachingConditionsNext YearSuccessful PersonAccepting Reality Author:E. W. Howe
“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.” WellsEnoughSpeakVoiceLearningHeardCommunicationQuietShoutingOur Words Author:Richard M. Nixon
“When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” LooksNightTimeStarsPerfectRoomsSilenceLearningHeardAirFiguresSittingSickTiredAddProofWanderRisingDividesMysticalLecturesApplauseColumnsAstronomersDiagramsGliding Book:Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition Source: Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition
“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.” CreativeLearningSawsHeardLonelinessTelevisionLonelyRadioMoodNot AfraidAbrahamFranklinBeing LonelyLeonardo Author:Carl Sandburg
“I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.” YearsFirstsAgeLearningHeardInspiredGuitarRadioRock N RollUkulele Author:Johnny Winter
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveSaidUnderstandingKnowledgeLearningHeardCommunicationListeningConfusionNot SureRealisingLack Of UnderstandingIllustratorsListening And Hearing Author:Robert McCloskey
“Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.” IfsKindDoeTwoWisdomReligionReligiousLearningHeardProfitIslamic Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.” WorldWantHelpingSeemsSongBlackVoiceWhiteTeachLearningClearTeacherHeardTeachingStudentsPromiseLet MeNotesLoudCriticizeProgressiveI Promise Book:Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
“The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.” BookStoriesUseLanguageEasyMistakeLearningStudyHeardObjectsDisciplineBehaviorProgramProgrammingWickedSpellsAppetitePreciseGrindComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageApprenticeBiddingSorceryInanimate ObjectsSmall Mistakes Author:Richard E. Pattis
“Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.” PeopleWantKnowledgeLearningHeardWorstAdviceConversationClaimsManagementDominanceUnfriendly Author:Peter Block