Continuous Learning Quotes

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.