#earning

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee. ↗

— John Medina

#learning #priorities #family

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#audience #certain #certain things #fun #how

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#buy #doing #drink #got #i

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american community #attitude #black #brown #city

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#being human #depression #dies #etc #experience

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me. ↗

— Boy George

#anybody #anything #been #due #else

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#how #learning #operate #soul #take

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#decisions #else #experiences #human #i