Mix Masters Bartending Academy was founded by Gayan Madushanka Basnayake, a seasoned beverage expert with over 18 years of global experience in the hospitality industry. Based in Sri Lanka.
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"I am still learning."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Light up the darkness."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."