David A. Bednar Quotes

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Travel teaches as much as books.

The best university is the university of life.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

And the most important thing isn't the trophies, it's the experiences, what you lived, what's here in your heart, what you know, what you live. No one can ever steal that from you.

There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences.