Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
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.
Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Chance favours the trained mind.
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
Learn all you can learn. Never stop learning.
I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.
I play with children so that I can learn from them.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
I may be older but I never stopped studying.
Stalin was an avid reader.
I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.
In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.
I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.
Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.
And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.