You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

God always wants us to be growing.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.