Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.

“We have to learn from our mistakes, ... This is one of the best teams in the league and you learned you can play with them, but you can't make mistakes.”

“I learned a lot from the hurricane. I learned determination, dedication and sacrifice. I?m not glad it happened, but I?m glad for what it did for me.”

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.

Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger.