Ann Patchett Quotes

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

I just find something to learn in everything.

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.