Persistent Learning Quotes

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.

I tried lots of things and never stopped learning.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.