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