當發現讀書無用時，有人嘲笑學習，有人抱怨內容太晦澀、太淺顯、翻譯品質太差。 這些問題也許存在，但這些指責和抱怨忽略了最需要對學習結果負責的人─學習者本人。 讀書有用還是無用，關鍵在於學習者是否具備使學習有用的能力。

大多數人並不知道自己缺乏哪方面的知識，所以那些大眾化且未必有深度的知識必然大受歡迎。 大多數人並不是因為知道自己缺什麼，然後去彌補，而是受社會、媒體和包裝影響而做出選擇。 很多知識只是長得像知識而已，很多人也只是裝作很愛學習而已。

學員們在聽到新知識的興奮之後，在經歷培訓現場的激動之後，在給予高分評價回饋之後……他們到底能改變多少？ 還是所謂的「聽聽激動，想想感動，回去不動」？ 職場工作者學習效果的瓶頸主要不在「教」，而在「學」上。

成人的學習能力分為三個層次： 1 內化與應用知識、 2 分析與整理資訊、 3 追問與思考經驗。

以學習者為中心，而不是以知識為中心，要用知識連結學習者的過往經驗、規畫具體的應用場景。 所有學習都應該本著為自己的知識體系添磚加瓦為原則。

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I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

I work out religiously. It's great for my back. It's great for my core. I've been exposed to lots of exercise regimens and movement classes as an actor, so I understand the importance of stretching and staying limber, but Pilates is what's really spoken to me. It works everything out.

You know, most people really don't know me.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

I've started taking long walks in the park, which is quite wonderful.

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

Are you desperate or determined With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose achievement and peace.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Before you can be anything you have to be yourself. Thats the hardest thing to find.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

Hatred is like fire it makes even light rubbish deadly.

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.