learning

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘learning’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.” -Miyamoto Musashi

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  • “The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.” -Humphrey Carpenter

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  • “I’ve studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.” -Tony Williams

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  • “Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.” -Robert Martin

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  • “Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.” -Anne Ford

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  • “Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.” -Lucretia Mott

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  • “When Honor’s sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.” -Edward Cocker

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  • “Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.” -Henry Longhurst

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  • “I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.” -Lloyd Bentsen

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  • “Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.” -William Allan

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  • “For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.” -Penelope Leach

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  • “For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.” -Fabrice Luchini

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  • “No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.” -Archibald Wavell

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  • “We were learning together. We’d go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.” -Tom Conway

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  • “I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn’t strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.” -Todd Rokita

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  • “It wasn’t until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!” -John Davidson

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  • “I think I’m going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I’ll go back to work.” -Linda Cardellini

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  • “I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.” -Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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  • “As I got older, I really got into Tupac’s poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.” -Jhene Aiko

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  • “Always keep learning. It keeps you young.” -Patty Berg

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  • “We’ll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.” -Burt Rutan

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  • “Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.” -Jeff Healey

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  • “When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.” -Samuel Foote

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  • “I just want to keep learning.” -Simon Kinberg

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  • “Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You’re hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don’t realize it. You’re speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.” -Larry Speakes

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  • “I’m only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it’s all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I’m just looking forward to knowing more.” -Duffy

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  • “We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.” -John Hope Franklin

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  • “I’ve definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I’m learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.” -Sarah Drew

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  • “In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.” -Ethan Allen

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  • “To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.” -Eliza Haywood

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  • “So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.” -Sonny Terry

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  • “I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.” -Flavius Josephus

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  • “Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.” -Nelson Goodman

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  • “Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.” -Gates McFadden

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  • “The British system had requirements, including Latin. I’m not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.” -William Scott

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  • “I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.” -Georgie Fame

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  • “Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.” -Hal David

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  • “Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn’t know anything about cameras. I didn’t know how to make a film and I obviously didn’t have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was…

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  • “I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.” -Conrad Burns

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  • “When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking ‘did I want to come back in?’, I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right…

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  • “‘Strictly Business’ is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.” -Tommy Davidson

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  • “We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.” -Candice S. Miller

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  • “Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.” -Michael Stuhlbarg

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  • “Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people – those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that’s my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do…

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  • “That’s not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.” -Thomas Carper

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  • “From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.” -Seth Low

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  • “I’ve been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.” -William Green

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  • “I didn’t miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the…

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  • “I’m thinking about learning a few new things – like taking classical guitar lessons – and I’d like to bring what I learn into hard rock.” -Mick Mars

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  • “I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.” -Timothy Spall

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  • “I think that’s what’s great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.” -Jaime King

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  • “Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else’s technique. I like mine.” -Frankie Muniz

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  • “I like to start out each day from the beginning. I’m always learning things.” -Bruce Weber

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  • “There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.” -Lynn Davies

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  • “Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.” -Carl Clinton Van Doren

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  • “After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.” -James Tobin

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  • “Diabetes is a disease that’s had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.” -Izabel Goulart

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  • “It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you’d opened your eyes wide enough.” -Julia Ormond

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  • “I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.” -Emmanuel Lewis

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  • “An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.” -William Labov

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  • “Everything is a learning experience.” -Angus T. Jones

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  • “I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.” -Jackson Rathbone

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  • “The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.” -Tarja Halonen

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  • “There’s always a learning curve, where you’ve got to learn what your subject is all about.” -Brad Gilbert

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  • “I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can’t really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.” -Chad Hugo

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  • “Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.” -S. J. Perelman

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  • “Obviously, I’ve been on sets before but nothing as big as ‘Twilight.’ You forget sometimes that you’re on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It’s such a great learning experience.” -Booboo Stewart

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  • “Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.” -Tommy Mottola

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  • “Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country’s history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.” -George Nethercutt

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  • “Some kids don’t know where they’ll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?” -Dennis Moore

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  • “Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.” -Simon van der Meer

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  • “I’m learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.” -Traci Bingham

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  • “The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.” -Edward Levi

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  • “Belief gets in the way of learning.” -Jeremy Collier

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  • “In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.” -Roger Ascham

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  • “I’d think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.” -Doc Watson

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  • “My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I’m learning so much from her.” -Joanne Woodward

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  • “I’ve just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes… every creative opportunity there is with my music I’ve taken.” -Santigold

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  • “I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that’s healthy when you’re learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.” -Andrew Dost

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  • “In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, ‘Thanks.’” -Theo James

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  • “Learning lines is my biggest challenge.” -Tim Meadows

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  • “Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.” -Dixie Carter

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  • “I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you’re always learning.” -Mario Lopez

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  • “Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn’t really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that’s really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with…

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  • “Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that’s when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.” -Dan Wheldon

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  • “When I have the time at home, I’ll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I’m a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I’m still learning.” -Bruce Hornsby

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  • “I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.” -Deidre Hall

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  • “But I think it’s hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it’s good I’m learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.” -Ty Segall

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  • “Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe – that all they’re interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they’re interested in learning something.” -David James Elliott

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  • “In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.” -Linda Ronstadt

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  • “Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.” -Rob Mariano

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  • “I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they’re learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.” -Norton Juster

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  • “I’m still learning, and that’s what life is about.” -Cary Elwes

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  • “I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.” -Dee Snider

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  • “I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.” -Lance Burton

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  • “Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today’s libraries are about much more than books.” -Jodi Rell

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  • “My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.” -Chick Corea

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  • “Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word ‘inclusion.’ And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age – it is…

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  • “I’m learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.” -Erica Durance

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  • “Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.” -Mickey Hart

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  • “Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I’ve made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.” -Patsy Kensit

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  • “I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.” -Ron Rash

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  • “We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.” -Linda Lavin

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  • “If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?”…

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  • “People trust I know what I’m doing. I have lots of credibility. I’ve had years of learning. I know and understand my business.” -Lori Greiner

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  • “I’m learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I’ve been having and it’s good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and…

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  • “I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it’s a dance step, a scene, an emotion.” -Kenny Wormald

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  • “The director’s job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details – like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don’t want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.” -Tyne Daly

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  • “Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.” -John Hersey

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  • “I think I’d like to stay anchoring because, number one, I’m learning a lot, and I love it when I’m learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.” -Linda Vester

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  • “But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.” -Anna Neagle

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  • “The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.” -Sarah Wayne Callies

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  • “I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.” -Madeleine Peyroux

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  • “My number one goal was not getting ‘A’s’ – and I proved it. I was a ‘C’ student. You have to be ready to learn. If you’re not interesting in learning, it doesn’t work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.” -Brian Lamb

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  • “I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.” -Natasha Henstridge

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  • “I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.” -Don Mattingly

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  • “I think the biggest difficulty is that when I’m here in America, there’s a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.” -Chiaki Kuriyama

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  • “I was fairly solitary. I didn’t like structured learning. People didn’t seem to be my cup of tea.” -Dan Farmer

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  • “In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.” -James Cronin

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  • “In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.” -Koichi Tanaka

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  • “I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.” -Mia Kirshner

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  • “I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.” -Scott Turow

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  • “I’m not a very good painter, but I’m learning a lot.” -Cleo Moore

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  • “The fundamentals of baseball haven’t changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.” -Dusty Baker

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  • “Each experience I go through – marriage, my public life, my personal life – I’m learning as I go.” -Jason Sudeikis

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  • “In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.” -Andres Iniesta

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  • “I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.” -Alan Parsons

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  • “My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.” -Georg Solti

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  • “I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.” -Jessye Norman

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  • “I’d love to be a saxophonist. I don’t know why, but I pretend I’m the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.” -Richard Price

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  • “As you get older, you’re always maturing, you’re always learning something new about yourself.” -Troy Vincent

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  • “I think it’s so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.” -Beverley Mitchell

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  • “Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place… That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life’s problems…

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  • “I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don’t recognize faces, so I’m sure it’s what drove me to portraits in the first place.” -Chuck Close

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  • “Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it’s not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.” -Roy Romer

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  • “I really believe I’ve been a good person. Not perfect – forget about perfect – but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants – and a few other things as well – but I’ve never hurt anybody.” -Kiri Te Kanawa

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  • “I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it’s like learning everyday.” -Estella Warren

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  • “I think when you’re learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.” -James Blake

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  • “Of course, I’d like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I’m learning from a bunch of little movies. And it’s more fun with smaller pictures. It’s more creative.” -Lea Thompson

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  • “In any of the arts, you never stop learning.” -Claire Bloom

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  • “I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.” -Carla Bley

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  • “I’m learning something all the time. That’s the way I want it to go, and that’s the way I’ll go until I am no longer on this planet.” -Doris Roberts

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  • “Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there’s not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.” -Andre Braugher

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  • “I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.” -John Otto

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  • “The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.” -Brendon Burchard

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  • “I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn’t afford to pay for long-term learning.” -Stephen Chow

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  • “I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his…

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  • “I’ve done some TV and I’ve done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I’m used to learning material and words.” -Sutton Foster

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  • “Advise for anybody – enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don’t be impatient.” -Robin Cousins

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  • “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” -Lloyd Alexander

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  • “All those years we’d spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you’d play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.” -Nick Lowe

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  • “It’s interesting when you’ve been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don’t know where it’s coming from but I am glad.” -Valerie Simpson

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  • “Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it’s by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.” -Stephen Chbosky

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  • “I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.” -Dannii Minogue

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  • “You’re always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.” -Elvis Stojko

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  • “Children don’t just play any more – they’re far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you’re actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It’s far better to remain a calm parent.” -Shirley Henderson

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  • “I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I’m only just learning how to do certain things.” -Art Garfunkel

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  • “To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.” -Peter R. Grant

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  • “I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, ‘I absolutely have to medal.’” -Ryan Hall

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  • “I don’t think any other city in the world… the sun doesn’t shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone’s very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you’re just constantly interacting and learning.” -Ben Lovett

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  • “I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.” -Percival Lowell

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  • “I think as an actor you’re always learning, you’re always trying to experience more things.” -Matthew Lewis

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  • “I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can’t write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.” -Paula Danziger

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  • “There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald McLeish

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  • “The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.” -Bruce Cockburn

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  • “I’m now learning how to distinguish when I’m acting and when I’m not acting – offstage as well as onstage.” -Micky Dolenz

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  • “I feel like I’m just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.” -Stephen Stills

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  • “For ‘So Cold the River,’ I’m actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for ‘The Fighter,’ and who also wrote ‘8 Mile,’ which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I’m learning a lot.” -Michael Koryta

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  • “I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It’s all part of the package.” -Chaske Spencer

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  • “Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He’s always been there. I can’t remember starting school and not learning about him.” -Jamie Campbell Bower

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  • “I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.” -Donald Davis

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  • “Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.” -Bonnie Blair

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  • “I’m learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that’s how it is. I’m really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don’t need to drink.” -Dana Plato

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  • “I hardly teach. It’s more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.” -Fay Godwin

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  • “People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.” -Nina…

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  • “Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.” -Bill Rancic

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  • “The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I’m just now learning. But it’s not dangerous in any of the ways people think it’s not that they try to make you compromise your art. That’s not the problem.” -T-Bone Burnett

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  • “The problem for me is that I’ve never actually studied photography, so it’s quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there’s a point where you should actually know the technical side.” -Graeme Le Saux

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  • “As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you’d say.” -Tom Udall

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