Brian Chesky Quotes

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

To acquire behavior, the student must engage in behavior

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

There is nothing like practice.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

I grow old learning something new every day.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

People are more easily induced to do, and do more easily, what they are already used to; but people also learn to do things new to them.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

I feel like I learn in every project.

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

It's good to experience different things.