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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn. -- Kanye West
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct. -- Alison Gopnik
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. -- M. F. K. Fisher
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. -- Nathaniel Branden
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn. -- Naveen Jain
We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition. -- Jared Polis
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them. -- Charles Kennedy
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. -- Edward Thorndike
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place. -- Charles Kennedy
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. -- Padmasree Warrior
The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow. -- Hal Elrod
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. -- Arie de Geus
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The -- Brian Herbert
The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn. -- Robin Hoyle
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach. -- Margaret Mead
Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment. -- Lawrence S. Kubie
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. -- Terry Orlick
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. -- Dan Brown
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. -- Brian Herbert
To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser. -- Donald L. Hicks
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life. -- Gautama Buddha
There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources. -- Reid Hoffman
It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn. -- Kanye West
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist -- M. F. K. Fisher
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn -- Nathaniel Branden
One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly -- Tony Robbins
... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job. -- Cornelia Parker
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. -- Frank Herbert
In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. -- Vinod Khosla
We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability to learn and work using English, which makes their future success more likely. -- Jan C. Ting
Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any. -- Brad Thor
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything. -- Neil Burger
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. -- Frank Herbert
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for advances coming out of nowhere, and embrace the new opportunities as they emerge. You need to be able to collaborate with others and build relationships. You need to be able to share ideas, inspire, and motivate. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. -- Charlie Sheen
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn. -- Robin Trower
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. -- Bob Woodward
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. -- Charles M. Schulz
Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn. -- Gerard Depardieu
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures. -- Chris Cornell
The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary. -- Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure. -- James Altucher
Power is the ability to afford not to learn. -- Karl Deutsch
The more we learn and stretch our comfort zone, the better our ability will be. -- Kishore Bansal
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. -- Ruth Beechick
You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are. -- John Darnielle
If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable. -- Frederick Lenz
The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it. -- Thomas S. Monson
Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. -- John Wooden
What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this -- Kevin Heath
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. -- Wes Fesler
Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow. -- Stephen Covey
The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love. -- Steve Knox
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. -- Ann Veneman
The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges. -- Nathaniel Branden
We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent. -- Debasish Mridha
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. -- John C. Maxwell
God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand. -- Jerry Bridges
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key. -- William J. Clinton
A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas. -- Arie de Geus

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