Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Each time you do something, you must return to your beginner’s mind, and give it your best.”
Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) Japanese aikidoka
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Ki Sayings (2003)
Context: !-- People who are fast learners tend to pick things up so quickly that they lose out on the opportunity for repetitious learning. --> Even if you learn something quickly with your conscious mind, you will easily forget it after you stop practicing. That which is learned with the subconscious mind is not easily forgotten. Therefore to learn something with the subconscious mind, requires months and years of training. Just because you were able to do it before, do not assume that you can do it as well the second time. Each time you do something, you must return to your beginner’s mind, and give it your best.
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
17 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/26824930679062528 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
T.S. Eliot book Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Context: What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.”
Ashot Nadanian (1972) chess player
S'pore Chess News, 15 November 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/nadanian_singapore_goodbye.html
James Redfield (1950) American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer
Source: The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Robert A. Heinlein book Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)
Armen Sarkissian (1953) 4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, phy…
"Congratulations on the Knowledge and Schooling Day" https://www.president.am/en/statements-and-messages/item/2021/09/01/President-Armen-Sarkissians-congratulatory-message-on-the-occasion-of-Knowledge-and-Schooling-Day-/ (1 September 2021)