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。 — 思考一件事時要思考它跟我有什麼關係，如果一件事跟自己沒關係，思考就會很快停止，而且記住知識的誘因就會降低。 閱讀的重點是為自己增加知識以準備未來應用知識、創造價值，不是為找出書的重點，就算背了書的內容，作者也不會給你頒獎。 不要以書為重心，以自己為重心。

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。

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Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort, and we control both.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

It is a curse being blessed with so much to offer.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

They say women and music should never be dated.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel. Since 1967, anyone can practice his religion according to his own conscience and complete free will.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

War is hell.