"We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity."

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Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.133, Pear Press

John Medina

#Jobs Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Lifelong Quotes

“The Gospel is â€˜Good Newsâ€™, not â€˜Good Historyâ€™, because when itâ€™s preached, it happens.”
“And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.”
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2014
“Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?”
“Until you show you can handle what youâ€™ve got, you wonâ€™t get any more!”
“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
“I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.”

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