Quotes or Quotation - Don’t Recall, Internalize them

“What reaches the heart without going through mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business”

– How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book).

This is the way how we integrate, most of knowledge into our Life. Any fact from the world constructed on the platform of heart without having the mind (thinking machine) as it base can never be converted to a Knowledge – a useable form. And that’s the reason, why most of the people end up messing – their relationship, family and their own Life. Simply they never look for the combinations which are going to work for them.

The above written text is quoted from a book - How to read a book and it shows you, how such quotes should be used and applied to the real life. Quotations are not special arrangement of the words to form unique sentences, so that you can use them in speeches, to advertise your product or elsewhere.

They are the quantum packets of information, optimal experiences, discipline, knowledge which eventually gives the direction to convert the facts into useable form and enable us to take better decision for success and satisfaction.

You often quote a text either from a book or a readable resource. In each of case it’s of equal importance to know that, whatever author writes in a book is backed with proper thinking, analysis, research and most of the time with experiments and experience. And hence it’s important for you to understand what he wants to convey.

It’s a kind of learning process, because knowing a particular fact or quotation is not enough, you should know how to apply them to problems outside of the domain because they help you to learn that skill. Also learning how to think is a kind of hard skill, because you have to research and filter lots of information and facts, do the analysis, and then you have to connect it to the framework- which is not only easy to recall but can be internalize. For that we have to prioritize our learning process, because we have to develop a framework that is easy to remember or recall, integrate it the domains of our interest and make it available for use.

And Quotations are one of them, they never change, they are universal and easy to apply from one domain to other provided they give you the optimal results. As we all know, the knowledge is to be maintained and not just to be added – because adding will bring you at the stage where you say, there is nothing in my mind. Also Quotations are those thought processed ideas that have lasted and will last for the long time.

Success framework from Steve Jobs –

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time”.

Take your time, think on them, learn them and don’t just recall, internalize them.