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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

Quality Knowledge Learning Intellectual Direct Independent Management Abstraction

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”

Inspirational Humans Natural Common Quality Learning Students Genius Educational Human Qualities

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

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

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

Inspirational Mind Growth Quality Knowledge Learning Dignity Determine Quantity Personal Dignity Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Book:Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

“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.”

Ideas Force Sides Change Quality Learning Argument Destruction Valuable Acquire Destroying Rapids Modifying

Author:Charlie Munger

“Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.”

Should Mean Quality Accepting Learning Keys Standards Performances Customers Core Primaries Premises Schooling Learners Learning Experience

Author:David Hood

“Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.”

“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.”

“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.”

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Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.”

Joy Pleasure Quality Learning Teaching

Author:Myron Tribus

“The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.”

Want Inspirational Motivational Acting Quality Learning Exercise Truth Is Acquire

Author:Joseph Murphy

“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.”

“Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.”

Mind Children Motivational Quality Learning Share Genius Inquiring

Author:Chauncey Guy Suits

“To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.”