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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

Accessing prior knowledge; transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned. Use what you learn!

We do not learn from our experiences; we learn by reflecting on our experiences.
John Dewey
If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student’s abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.
Marilyn J. Adams
The work will teach you how to do it.
Estonian proverb
You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen, author
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Toomer
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
Chris Evert
Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on your past experience and being able to take that observations and associate it with meaning.
Ruth and Art Winter.
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
Thomas A. Edison
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Julian Simon
If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.
Margot Fonteym
It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
Esther Meynell
Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
Eugene O'Neill
Once people learn something, they're reluctant to let it go
Robert Easton
The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.
Ankit Jamwal
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard David Bach
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Italo Svevo
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself,'I have failed three times,'and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'
S. I. Hayakawa
I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.'I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
Anna Quindlen
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