"Conditions are changing all the time, and..." - Quote by Mao Zedong
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxism and are comparatively firm in their proletarian stand have to go on studying, have to absorb what is new and study new problems.
More by Mao Zedong
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
“We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.”
“Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own”
More on Learning
“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”
“Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.”
“Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.”
More on Adaptation
“He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.”
“The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.”
“The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop newplans to replace those plans that didn't work.”