Intentional Learning Quotes

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

No man was ever wise by chance.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.