When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.
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Related You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY A learning experience. When they go out into the world, they'll understand the concepts, what it tak... JOE RICE When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ... KAREN BLIXEN The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix ... MANDY PATINKIN Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our... GORDON SMITH Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI We are now learning that this abuse may have started to occur when she was 13 or 14 years-old and co... ANTHONY FUSCO When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we... DAVID OGDEN STIERS It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe... LAURENCE STEINBERG Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from ... SOURCE UNKNOWN I really admire people in the public eye, who have influence or celebrity and they take a stand on s... EILEEN ANGLIN When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on t... CYNTHIA OZICK When the kids see what great shape he's in, and that there's a certain gleam in his eye, they are ab... JOSEPH JOHNSON We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel secretly, when ... QURAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When we won in 1990 we had a similar set-up with most of our players back from the previous year. We... JOHN BRADY When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU When we tell about our cause,Politicians only smile;While they mould and make our laws,What care the... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When will we realise what we are doing?? DEYTH BANGER In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when t... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN We are very, very public with our honor code. We want students to know before they come to the unive... CARRI JENKINS Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through wit... FREDERIK POHL When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me. DAVID OTUNGA Alicia's eyes? Brown. Gabrielle's? Gabrielle I don't remember. Eye color it's not really that import... THOMAS RAYFIEL They understood what was going on and they were frustrated. We just had to take care of the ball. We... MARK BAILEY There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, o... MARY-KATE OLSEN What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to
overlook what does not conne... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learni... DENNIS PRAGER When the women come for their hour-long appointment, often times when they come through our front do... DANA HARRISON Looking forward to the day when formative assessments (over summative assessments) are embraced and ... BENJAMIN L. STEWART They are learning to live with the disease and control it when it appears. JUAN LUBROTH This was another learning experience for us. We are not going to blow every team out. There will be ... DEREK COLEMAN Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neg... PLUTARCH Our arms carry our kids forever – they are our only living fruit (even when we are no more or when... MARIANA FULGER It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must ... EMMET FOX It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something?... S.J. WATSON We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain and we know it will occur, but we don't know ... DICK THOMPSON As with most things in life, a healthy balance will keep us on the right path. To avoid too much eye... SUSAN C. YOUNG I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi... ALBERT CAMUS when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig... JULIA GREGSON Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's... CAIO FONSECA There was a Category 5 hurricane with a bull's-eye on our butts, so we called Barb and said we didn'... CHRIS HARDIN We call the cat One Eye. He can only see out of one eye. He sleeps with Fester in the pen. They get ... CHERYL PEYERK I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn... JESSE HELMS Sometimes when we think our lives are falling apart what we don’t see, is that they might just be ... L.J. VANIER Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewis... H.E. DAVEY When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye bec... MARY-KATE OLSEN I know better than to not trust God. But sometimes, I forget that. When we are in the midst of an ex... MELODY BEATTIE Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We take nothing for granted. It's a race we're keeping our eye on, but we're confident. ED PATRU Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago -... STEVE ERICKSON He makes a huge difference. He has experience. When he comes out and plays hard, you see big hits an... BRAD CLANTON Using the crime analysis information, officers know what types of crimes are taking place and in wha... BONNIE WINCHESTER We don't have to See eye to eye to Agree. DEBRA ROBERTS Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learnin... JEAN PIAGET The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of... GREIL MARCUS Coach talked to us at halftime about when you think about it, one play in a big game, one mental mis... JULIAN WRIGHT When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out t... JOHN OWEN Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love,... DR BRIAN BABINGTON It's frustrating and it hurts. When we get it together, when everybody's on the same page, we know c... CHARLES RHODES To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it ver... PIET HEIN Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be... DONALD A. NORMAN How can I meet you? Where can I meet you? When can I meet you? Okay just tell me why I should meet y... EPHDAN We released it on our own label, so it wasn't really a wide distribution but for our own little humb... STEVE WINWOOD There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ... HOMER People at Xavier are wholeheartedly on the same page. The basketball program is treated with amazing... SEAN MILLER We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actuall... XAVIER DOLAN When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and h... TOM RATH Our guests, when they arrive on board, they are going to see that. When they depart, they are going ... CAROL MARLOW We didn't play our best game this season. But when we when or lose, either way we showed a little we... GLENN MCANNINCH You know how they say that you have to take action and show what you're going for in order for them ... BRENDA RODRIGUEZ I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and the... ELIZABETH PEYTON My hope is that when people first see the cover, they won't understand what they are seeing. Then, o... CHIP KIDD When people visit Connecticut in the fall, they tend to stay a few days -- three or four days on ave... BARBARA CIEPLAK In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh... SAM CLAFLIN When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distres... HENRY WARD BEECHER It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we kno... ROBERT F. KENNEDY We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be c... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who w... PATTY HOUSER We are often let down by the most trusted people and loved by the most unexpected ones. Some make us... CHANDA KAUSHIK I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really... JOSEPH DAVID-JONES When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing. STEVE MARABOLI You know these people when they go over and you see what they are dealing with and you just pray the... CAPT. APRIL CONWAY Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look... KAY ROBERTSON Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatien... NEAL A. MAXWELL Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatien... NEAL A. MAXWELL The ball, just when he throws it down, guys just swing and miss or they hit grounders. He's in a lit... TERRY FRANCONA Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know it... NOAM CHOMSKY I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexitie... C.G. JUNG Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years—when we most needed self-lov... MAUREEN BRADY When we started the school, we faced the question, 'How can we help our high school students. We dec... BILL HOOD
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BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss... BERTRAND RUSSELL The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a... BERTRAND RUSSELL Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en... BERTRAND RUSSELL This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ... BERTRAND RUSSELL If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have... RUSSELL HOBAN The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. BERTRAND RUSSELL The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca... RUSSELL LYNES If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it ... RUSSELL LYNES A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translate... BERTRAND RUSSELL The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins... BERTRAND RUSSELL After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp... RUSSELL HOBAN Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort ... RUSSELL HOBAN No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. BERTRAND RUSSELL Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's... RUSSELL HOBAN Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. BERTRAND RUSSELL Drunkenness is temporary suicide. BERTRAND RUSSELL A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. RUSSELL GREEN Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul... RUSSELL BAKER Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back... RUSSELL BAKER The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ... RUSSELL LYNES Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? BERTRAND RUSSELL The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w... BERTRAND RUSSELL If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to deman... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances ... G.J. RUSSELL What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. BERTRAND RUSSELL Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably lea... BERTRAND RUSSELL Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by t... BERTRAND RUSSELL Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. BILL RUSSELL There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literat... BERTRAND RUSSELL Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. BERTRAND RUSSELL