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“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

People Real Action Understanding Situation Knowledge Learning Creating Management Objectives Engagement Buzz

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.”

Ifs Littles Stills Real Reality Watches Learning Woods Realism Patches

Author:Lauren Hutton

“And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.”

Real Problem History Power Learning Trouble Difficulty Blame Solve

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.”

Writing Real Matter Learning Subjects Exercise Series Grappling

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.”

Real Learning Comment Curves Tabloids Steep Learning Curve

Author:Ben Affleck

“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”

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Book:Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world

Source: Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

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Book:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”

Ifs Knows Want Real Feelings Science Speak Language Difficult Nature Learning Discovery Appreciate Mathematics Nature Beauty Real Feelings

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”

Knows Real Learning Things In Life Unnecessary Real Wisdom

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”

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Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.”

Way Want Mean Children Real Parent Learning Method Rewards Technique Tricks Emphasis Raising Children

Author:Mamie Van Doren

“Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.”

Children Doe Real Inspiration Motivation Learning Team Opposites Teenager Mainstream Schooling

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.”

People World Inspirational Real Inspiration School Business Mistake Learning Inspire Entrepreneur Making Mistakes Real World Learning From Mistakes Rich And Poor Smart People

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.”

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Author:Ketzel Levine

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”

“Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.”

Thinking Men Different Real Women Fantasy Learning Seeing Directors Perception Men And Women Cinema Filmmaker Movie Portraying Portrayal Real Women Women Right

Book:Jane Campion: Interviews

Source: Jane Campion: Interviews

“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.”

Real Ends Running Joy Poor Learning Study Teaching Students Trade Breathing Lacking Indispensable Caricatures Apprentice Apprenticeship Joy Of Learning

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“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.”

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Author:Jan Carlzon

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

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Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.”

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Author:Andrei Codrescu

“Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.”

“It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.”

“In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.”

“The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.”

Important Real Three Learning Aspect Programming Estates Location Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Debugging

Author:Richard E. Pattis

“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”

Source: The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence