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Everyone’s approach to learning is different.
Learning doesn’t have to be completed at a designated time or in a specific format. Learning Pool gives knowledge and training to the hospitality industry. More than 300 organisations already use Learning Pool; our solutions work and, best of all, they’ll be tailored to your specific challenges.
We provide hospitality e-learning and online training solutions to help companies train their workforces online. Our solutions will enhance your employees’ knowledge and skills and improve the services they deliver to your guests.
We understand the difficulties of getting people engaged and excited about learning something new. That’s why we’ve pulled together some of our favourite inspirational quotations on learning in this e-book.
The quotes are from famous scholars and philosophers, actors and writers and political leaders. Despite their various backgrounds they all show that, although it may not always be easy, great learning can be accomplished through individual dedication.
Introduction
“The way that e-learning works in a blended approach ensures that knowledge is retained, helping employees work in a smarter way and thus delivering an evident return on investment.”
Learning Pool Total customer Edward Gallier, Jurys Inn
Live like you’ll die tomorrow, learn like you’ll live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian nationalist movment,1869 – 1948
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle Writer & Historian, 1795 – 1881
To change your reality youhave to change your inner thoughts
To change your reality youhave to change your inner thoughts
David BohmPhysicist,1917 – 1992
Learning is a social process that occurs through interpersonal interaction within a cooperative context. Individuals, working together, construct shared understandings and knowledge.
David Johnson, Roger Johnson and Karl Smith Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, Edina, MN: Interaction Book Co. 1991
Personally I’m always ready to
learn, although I do not always
like being taught.
Winston ChurchillBritish Politician & Statesman, 1874 – 1965
Claude Bernard French Physiologist,1813 – 1878
‘‘ ‘‘It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. Somerset Maughan Playwright & Novelist,1874 – 1965
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather Author,1873 – 1947
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
‘‘ ‘‘Alexander Pope Poet, 1688 – 1744
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry FordAmerican Industrialist, 1863 -1947
Read Read Read Read Read Read Read everything you can read and Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn everything you can learn because there is no tomorrow like today and today like tomorrow.‘‘ ‘‘
The Violent Femmes Lack of Knowledge lyrics from the album Why Do Birds Sing? 1991
Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.
Marie CuriePhysicist/Chemist,1867 – 1934
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
‘‘Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist,1879 – 1955
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.Chinese Proverb, Date Unknown
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ‘‘
‘‘John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States, 1917 – 1963
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abilgail Adams Former First Lady of the United States,1744 - 1818
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation
and three-fourths theatre.
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Gail Godwin Novelist, b.1937
Lesley Conger Writer, 1922 - 2010‘‘The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. li-brary.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
‘‘ ‘‘Plato Philosopher, 424/423 – 348/347 BC
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.‘‘ ‘‘
Confucius Philosopher, 551BC - 479BC
Take control of your own learning because no one else is going to.‘‘‘‘
Paul McElvaney
Director & Co- Founder of Learning Pool, 2011
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.‘‘
‘‘Frank Zappa
Composer/Singer-Songwriter,1940 – 1993
‘‘That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing Writer, b.1919
‘‘‘‘That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates Co-Founder of Microsoft & Philanthropist, b.1955
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Eugene S. Wilson Former Dean of Admission at AmherstCollege,1905 – 1981
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, 1856 -1950
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Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States,1901 - 1909
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out
how to do it.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
‘‘‘‘W. Clement Stone
Businessman & Author,1902 – 2002
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. ‘‘ ‘‘Natalie Portman Actress, b.1981
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
‘‘Joseph Joubert Essayist, 1754 - 1824
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between
what you do know and what you don’t.
‘‘ ‘‘Anatole France
Poet & Novelist, 1844 - 1924
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
‘‘Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, 1832 – 1888 ‘‘‘‘
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking
that makes what we read ours.
John Locke Philosopher and Physician, 1632 - 1704
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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
‘‘‘‘The ink of the scholar is more sacred
than the blood of the martyr.Mohammed
Founder of the Islamic Religion, 570 - 632
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
‘‘Sir Richard SteeleWriter, Politician & Co-Founder of The Spectator March, 1672 – 1729‘‘‘‘
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information on it.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information on it.
Samuel JohnsonAuthor,1709 - 1784, taken from Boswell’s Life of Johnson
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
‘‘‘‘Thomas Huxley
Biologist,1825 – 1895
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new
idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Physician & Author, 1809 -1894
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
‘‘Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst,1895 – 1982
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All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.‘‘
‘‘Martin H. FischerPhysician & Author,1879 – 1962
Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire.
‘‘William Butler Yeats
Poet & Playwright, 1865 – 1939‘‘‘‘
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
‘‘‘‘Ann Radcliffe
Author, Taken from The Mysteries of Udolpho, (1794), 1764 – 1823
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot irreverence to their studies;
they are not here to worship what is
known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski Mathematician & Biologist, 1908 – 1974
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Nelson Mandela Former President of South Africa. b 1918
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles Playwright, Taken from Trachiniae, 496 BC - 406 BC
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.‘‘‘‘Paul Eldridge
(Novelist & Poet, 1888 - 1982)
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.‘‘‘‘Paul Eldridge
Novelist & Poet, 1888 - 1982
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare Poet & Playwright,1564 - 1616
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
‘‘ ‘‘Jack Kerouac Novelist & Poet,1922 – 1969
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
‘‘Chinese Proverb, Date Unknown‘‘‘‘
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes LaertiusBiographer of the Greek philosophers, Date Unknown‘‘‘‘
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
‘‘‘‘Lao Tzu Philosopher & Author of Tao Te Ching, Date Unknown
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer English philosopher, 1820 - 1903
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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
‘‘John WoodenBasketball player & Coach, 1910 – 2010‘‘‘‘
Benjamin Franklin One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1706 - 1790
The doors of wisdom are never shut. ‘‘‘‘
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist,1879 – 1955
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Modern learning is the key to good modern public services.‘‘
‘‘Mary McKenna Director & Co- Founder of Learning Pool, 2011
Pink Floyd, Band, Another Brick in the Wall lyrics from the album The Wall, 1979
We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the
classroom, Teacher leave them kids alone, Hey teacher leave them kids alone. All in all you’re
just another brick in the wall.
We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the
classroom, Teacher leave them kids alone, Hey teacher leave them kids alone. All in all you’re
just another brick in the wall.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas Edison Inventor, Scientist & Businessman,1847 – 1931
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
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Vernon Howard Author, Teacher & Philosopher,1918 -1992
We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning.‘‘ ‘‘
Elliott MasieLearning, Training & Technology Anaylst, Date Unknown
One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try. ‘‘
‘‘Dudley Field Malone Attorney & Politician, 1882 – 1950
‘‘The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
‘‘Oprah Winfrey
Television Host, Producer & Philanthropist, b.1954
The
cur
e fo
r boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.‘‘ ‘‘Dorothy Parker
Poet & Critic,1893 – 1967
‘‘I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
‘‘George Herbert Palmer
American educator, philosopher, and author,1842 - 1933
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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Tony RobbinsAuthor, b.1960
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
‘‘ ‘‘Walt DisneyCo-Founder of The Walt Disney Company, 1901 – 1966
If y
ou’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
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Sir Ken RobinsonAuthor on Education, Creativity and Innovation, b.1950
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
‘‘George Patton,
United States Army Officer,1885 – 1945
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.‘‘‘‘
William Arthur Ward Writer, 1921 – 1994
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you‘‘ ‘‘
BB King Blues Guitarist & Songwriter, b.1925
Develop
a passion
for learning.
If you do,
you will
never cease
to grow.
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Anthony J. D’Angelo Author & Chief Visionary Officer of Collegiate EmPowerment, b.1972
An investment
in knowledge
always pays
the best
interest. ‘‘ ‘‘An investment
in knowledge
always pays
the best
interest. ‘‘ ‘‘Benjamin FranklinOne of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1706 - 1790
‘‘It
is p
ossi
ble
to st
ore the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec BourneDoctor & Writer, 1886 – 1974
Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can’t see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is
not always the quickest way to success.
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Donald Clarke-learning thought leader, speaker and writer, Date Unknown
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
‘‘‘‘ Dr Seuss
Writer, Poet & Cartoonist, 1904 – 1991
I don’t think much of a man who
is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ‘‘‘‘
Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States, 1861 - 1865
Beware of the man who works
hard to learn something,
learns it, and finds himself no
wiser than before.
‘‘ ‘‘Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Novelist, 1922 – 2007
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
‘‘Thomas Hardy Novelist & Poet, 1840 – 1928
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Learning professionals
need to be
thinkingabout creating learning
EXPERIENCES rather than learning content.
Learning professionals
need to be
thinkingabout creating learning
EXPERIENCES rather than learning content.
‘‘‘‘Charles Jennings
e-learning thought leader, speaker and writer, Date Unknown
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ‘‘‘‘J. K. Rowling, Author, Taken from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, b.1965
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent
than college professors.
Maya AngelouAuthor & Poet, b.1928
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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Will RogersActor, Radio Personality, Newspaper Columnist,1879 – 1935
Get over the idea that only children should
spend their time in study. Be a student so
long as you still have something to learn,
and this will mean all your life.‘‘
‘‘Henry L. Doherty Businessman, 1870 - 1939
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.‘‘
‘‘Socrates Philosopher,469 – 399 BC
Revolution is internal, Help yourself at any time, Evolution isn’t over, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, We’re
about to use our mind...
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Gogol Bordello Band, Raise The Knowledge Lyrics from the album, Trans-Continental Hustle, 2010
You can teach a
student a lesson for
a day; but if you can
teach him to learn by
creating curiosity,
he will continue the
learning process as
long as he lives.
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‘‘Clay P. Bedford Industrialist, Engineer & Manager, 1903 - 1991
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