Of study took he utmost care and heed.
Not one word spoke he more than was his need;
And that was said in fullest reverence
And short and quick and full of high good sense.
Pregnant of moral virtue was his speech;
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
(Description of the Oxford clerk, from the General Prologue to Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”)

If you want to build a ship, don ¢â‚¬â„¢t drum up people to collect wood and don ¢â‚¬â„¢t assign them to tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea.
(Antoine de Saint-Exup ƒ ©ry, 20th Century French author and aviator)

It ¢â‚¬â„¢s all about learning, continually improving, and adapting to conditions.
(Ricky Ponting, 23 November, 2008 after returing from touring India & winning the first test against NZ in Brisbane)

“Never expect perfection and bear quietly with the defects that from time to time come under your notice.”
“God won ¢â‚¬â„¢t ask you how others have done the work God has committed to them, but will ask you how you have done yours and in what spirit.”
“Be not hasty in judging one another, put kind constructions where you can, and where you cannot, be silent.”
(Three quotations from Mother Mary MacKillop)

In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future (Eric Hoffer)