There is no education like adversity.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 98
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
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I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
Paul Thomas Anderson
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
A. N. Wilson
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.
Carla Bruni
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.
Daniel Kahneman
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
Sheila Heti
Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack Kornfield
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.