Claire Tomalin Quotes

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.

Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Science is about filling in the details.

Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

You can always improve as a player; there's never a time when you can say anything is perfect.

I have to improve all the time.

Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.