The world today takes no pity on the person who is lazy about learning.
Either you will take responsibility for continuing your education or you
will end up lacking the knowledge you need to enhance your career. Remind
yourself that there is only one school with no graduates and that is the
"School of Life." Recognize that learning is a life long journey
and it is the only way you will remain competitive. Continuous improvement-the
Japanese call it kaizen--offers some of the best assurance for
enhancing your career. Kaizen is the relentless pursuit of a better way,
striving for improved quality. Kaizen keeps you reaching and stretching
to outdo yesterday. Therefore you should dig deep and keep learning. Invest
in your personal growth, development and self renewal. Forget about "finishing"
your education. Define yourself by developing a better package of knowledge
and skills that than the next person. The more you know how to do and
the better you do it, the more valuable you are.
--A Compilation
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful
companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown,
and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess
no greater treasures.
--Kahlil Gibran
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power
a pageant; but knowledge is estatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited
in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices,
it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks in the volcano, dives into
the ocean, perforates the earth, wings its flight into the skies, explores
sea and land, contemplates the distant, examines the minute, comprehends
the great, ascends to the sublime. No place too remote for its grasp,
no height too exalted for its reach.
--De Witt Clinton
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own
immediate boundaries.
-- Tyndall
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