Learning Opportunity Quotes

The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process. ~ James Marcus Bach

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. ~ Andy Hargreaves

That's your opportunity
to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing. ~ Seth Godin

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him. ~ Karen Allen

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning. ~ W. Brett Wilson

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about. ~ Herman Cain

Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored. ~ Adele Devine

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education. ~ John F. Kennedy

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity. ~ John Calipari

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more. ~ Q'orianka Kilcher

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up. ~ Hilarie Burton

Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity. ~ Santosh Kalwar

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity. ~ Richard M. Schulze

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself. ~ Gary Zukav

I would rather make the wrong decision and correct it, rather than make no decision which leaves me nothing to correct. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be pushed and move beyond our own understanding provides a wonderful learning opportunity. ~ Terran D. Jackson

Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people. ~ Bill Rancic

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. ~ Sam Raimi

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

People who wait for the one great opportunity often keep waiting. ~ John C. Maxwell

After the final no there comes a yes. ~ Wallace Stevens

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. ~ Robin Sharma

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. ~ Gordon Brown

Learning to judge whose lives could be saved, whose couldn't be, and whose shouldn't be requires an unattainable prognostic ability. ~ Paul Kalanithi

It is virtually impossible to create and sustain over time conditions for productive learning for students when they do not exist for teachers.
-Seymour Sarason ~ Diane Sweeney

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite. ~ Barack Obama

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Proverbs 9:8-10
.Rebuke the wise and they will love you. Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still;
teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Solomon Son Of David

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution. ~ Robin Sharma

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip. ~ Dean Karnazes

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future. ~ Bob Riley

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it. ~ Walter E. Williams

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually ~ Matt Dunn

We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help. ~ Mario Lemieux

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. ~ Carl Lewis

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. ~ Walt Disney

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. ~ Debasish Mridha

Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them. ~ Drew Houston

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. ~ Henry Ford

You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover. ~ David Deida

Try as some of us may, we cannot escape the influence our lives have upon the lives of others. Ours is the opportunity to build, to lift, to inspire, and indeed to lead. The New Testament teaches that it is impossible to take a right attitude toward Christ without taking an unselfish attitude toward men: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matthew 25:40). We may think as we please, but there is no question about what the Bible teaches. ~ Thomas S. Monson

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector. ~ Deval Patrick

Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors. ~ Delia J. Colvin

Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American. ~ Lionel Sosa

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. ~ John Sununu

And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren't fit to live. You may be 38 years old as I happen to be, and one day some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause--and you refuse to do it because you are afraid; you refuse to do it because you want to live longer; you're afraid that you will lose your job, or you're afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity or you're afraid that somebody will stab you or shoot at you or bomb your house, and so you refuse to take the stand. Well you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90! And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right, you died when you refused to stand up for truth, you died when you refused to stand up for justice. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no more valuable skill than studentship. The farther we go down one area of human understanding, the more we see the corollaries that all activities share. Everything I do for the rest of my life, all the skills I acquire, will be made possible because of my time spent on the mats. It has revealed a symbiosis between all things that I never knew existed. ~ Chris Matakas

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything? ~ Stephen King

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. ~ Jay Woodman

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things? ~ Ken Robinson

I suppose there may be a branch president or a high councilor or an elders quorum president or a visiting teacher in the room who wants to know what it is we are to accomplish as Church members when we get together, even if it's only in a home evening group or an opportunity to pray together. Well, this passage indicates that it may have something to do with remembering each other. We all count. Everyone matters. We have a name and it's recorded and we need to remember that here. No one must get lost. "And their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God ... to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon the merits of Christ ... to fast and to speak with one another concerning the welfare of their souls ... to observe that there should be no iniquity among them"
what a great thought about meetings and what they are supposed to do, what a Sunday School class can be, what a scriptural discussion in an apartment can be. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning. ~ Robert Boyle

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic. ~ Thaddeus Stevens

We cannot truly know and understand how God speaks to us unless we have actually experienced
it. Learning to discern the fingerprint of God on your own life allows you to know deep in your soul and your skin the person God calls you to be. Then be that person instead of trying to be what you aren't. You'll be much richer for the experience. So will the rest of the world. ~ Debra K. Farrington

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. ~ David Rockefeller

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. ~ Elissa Schappell

The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect. ~ Ted Agon

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science. ~ Abhijit Naskar

No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood. ~ Tarun Shanker

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity. ~ Richard J. Foster

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought. ~ Frederick Lenz

Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry.
No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back. ~ Amy Meredith