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).

  • “I’d go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I’d take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That’s how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.” -Herb Ritts

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  • “I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.” -David Knopfler

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  • “I think there’s so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It’s not contextualized.” -Esperanza Spalding

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  • “Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.” -Thomas Nashe

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  • “I’m learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn’t know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.” -Mick Cornett

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  • “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.” -Tony Buzan

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  • “Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do…

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  • “The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.” -Elliot Richardson

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  • “But the mechanics of learning to ‘throw your voice’ are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.” -Jeff Dunham

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  • “What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn’t remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.” -Andrew Lo

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  • “And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.” -Trip Hawkins

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  • “Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.” -Roy Blount, Jr.

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  • “I make personal appearances around the country. I’m starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I’m doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.” -Burt Ward

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  • “The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.” -Samantha Barks

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  • “All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.” -Robert Ley

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  • “Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.” -Haley Joel Osment

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  • “Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?” -John Ensign

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  • “I’m learning as I go. I don’t know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I’m from I didn’t have any famous role models.” -Wale

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  • “I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who’d spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.” -Paul Merton

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  • “Early on, it’s good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you’re writing about is not that relevant.” -Walter Gilbert

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  • “If it doesn’t feel like a job and I’m learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don’t care if it’s behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.” -Benjamin Walker

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  • “Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.” -Eric Allin Cornell

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  • “I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.” -Andie MacDowell

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  • “I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.” -Kelly Hu

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  • “Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.” -Bubba Sparxxx

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  • “Medieval learning was really advanced.” -Terry Jones

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  • “You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I’m learning.” -Diahann Carroll

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  • “I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.” -K. Eric Drexler

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  • “I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.” -Marvin Minsky

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  • “I hope I’m always learning something.” -Kate Winslet

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  • “Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.” -Ryan Adams

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  • “Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.” -Jane Harrison

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  • “The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.” -Hermann Ebbinghaus

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  • “Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.” -Mac Thornberry

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  • “You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.” -Dennis Brown

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  • “Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.” -Jamie Moyer

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  • “I didn’t have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.” -Brie Larson

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  • “Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.” -Richie Sambora

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  • “I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn’t read that way.” -Michael…

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  • “I was delighted to have lines when they came – learning lines for film isn’t a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.” -David Selby

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  • “I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.” -Philippe Perrin

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  • “Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.” -William Allingham

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  • “I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.” -Thomas Jane

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  • “The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.” -Nicholas Negroponte

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  • “I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.” -Sanaa Lathan

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  • “When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice – my voice.” -Mstislav Rostropovich

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  • “What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I’m learning.” -Wilford Brimley

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  • “I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child – it’s ok to make mistakes.” -Regina King

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  • “I wouldn’t change anything. I think that it’s important to let things happen, and stay ‘happened’. I think that’s all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I’m just glad that it happened.” -Mike Peters

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  • “We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.” -Benjamin Jowett

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  • “Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.” -Cameron Crowe

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  • “I enjoy learning technical details.” -Ken Follett

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  • “Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.” -Vernon Law

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  • “Imitation is being rewarded. They’re learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression – it’s a means to a lifestyle.” -Mike Watt

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  • “Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.” -Abraham Cahan

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  • “I am still learning every day not to watch other people’s careers and compare.” -Joely Fisher

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  • “Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.” -Anna Friel

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  • “We must expect to fail… but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.” -Ted W. Engstrom

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  • “If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.” -Carl Levin

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  • “I’ve heard that, but since I’m computer illiterate I don’t know how it all works. But since I’m on Prodigy tonight, I’m learning a lot through my typist, Peter.” -Bobby Sherman

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  • “Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can’t just ride along. You’re learning to steer the ship, navigation you’re pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you’re cooking.” -Billy Campbell

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  • “Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme – it’s taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn’t mean or anything.” -Ashley Scott

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  • “To the Kenyan families, school doesn’t really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they’re spending their time learning things that are important to them.” -Robert Sternberg

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  • “I felt that if there wasn’t going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.” -David R. Ellis

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  • “It’s interesting to do other people’s music – that’s how I learned to play, by learning other people’s songs. It’s nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

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  • “The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.” -Tracy Kidder

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  • “I’m most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.” -Marguerite Moreau

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  • “Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.” -Tim Holden

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  • “We’re learning as we go. We’re a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.” -Ray Nagin

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  • “It’s not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!” -Christopher Parker

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  • “I have six sisters, so I assumed I’d have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.” -Melissa Joan Hart

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  • “Learning something new is fun.” -Alex Trebek

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  • “Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.” -Spike Jonze

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  • “I’ve been making sushi for 38 years, and I’m still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.” -Masaharu Morimoto

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  • “I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.” -Bobby McFerrin

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  • “We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we’re learning from them.” -Miguel de Icaza

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  • “Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we’re building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I’d like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.” -Andy Roddick

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  • “I didn’t go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.” -Jonathan Demme

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  • “I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.” -Dick Schaap

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  • “Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don’t worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.” -Rocco DiSpirito

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  • “You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.” -Cynthia Weil

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  • “That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn’t realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.” -Kent McCord

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  • “If this validates anything, it’s that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.” -Ryne Sandberg

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  • “My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.” -Joseph Stiglitz

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  • “Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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  • “Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. I’m also learning to play the piano – I’m quite determined – it’s another release from the pressure of my job.” -Alex Ferguson

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  • “One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.” -Thomas Menino

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  • “I’ve always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.” -Oren Peli

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  • “A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.” -James Fallows

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  • “Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.” -Hilary Swank

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  • “I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I’ve had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It’s like a better version of a class. Even though I’m not sitting at a desk and in school, I’m…

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  • “Hopefully with each thing that you do you’re learning something, you’re growing, and you’re pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you’d be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn’t feel like ‘Oh, wow. I feel like I’m doing something a little different this time.’”…

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  • “You have to learn and keep learning.” -Gil Scott-Heron

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  • “The best part of learning any profession, when you’re really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.” -Diane Cilento

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  • “Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.” -Bill Budge

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  • “Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.” -Albert J. Nock

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  • “There is a learning quality in all of our shows.” -Trisha Goddard

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  • “Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.” -Solon

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  • “I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.” -Lionel Hampton

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  • “I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I’ve been able to rectify those events. It’s been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.” -Jessica Ennis

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  • “I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we’re all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.” -Paul Kane

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  • “But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.” -Benjamin Hoff

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  • “Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.” -Yao Ming

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  • “Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.” -Marvin Olasky

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  • “I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.” -Arthur Hailey

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  • “I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was…

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  • “The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.” -Morris West

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  • “We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.” -Yakov Smirnoff

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  • “I’m forever learning and that’s why I’m always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.” -Doug E. Fresh

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  • “All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.” -Alva Myrdal

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  • “It’s tempting to say the Ph.D. didn’t have an effect, but it’s not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.” -Robert B. Parker

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  • “I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.” -Michael Baden

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  • “Also, they don’t understand – writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.” -John Milius

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  • “I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs.” -Anthony Michael Hall

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  • “Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.” -Helen Frankenthaler

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  • “Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” -William Pollard

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  • “Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.” -Mark Kennedy

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  • “I’ve never stopped learning.” -Mick Taylor

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  • “People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another’s dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.” -Henry Reed

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  • “So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before – or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.” -James Iha

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  • “That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business – writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.” -Jackson Browne

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  • “I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.” -Mark Pincus

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  • “Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes – and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “I’m social and I meet people and talk to people but I’m not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I’m just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I’m around and who I cross paths with.” -Picabo Street

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  • “I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.” -Angela Davis

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  • “For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.” -Dweezil Zappa

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  • “There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.” -Bubba Watson

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  • “I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.” -Vanessa Carlton

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  • “In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.” -Ajay Naidu

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  • “By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I’m always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain – or else you’ll never keep at them.” -Lisa Edelstein

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  • “Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it’s more like an actor learning a part.” -John Deacon

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  • “And later I thought, I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.” -Nicolas Roeg

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  • “You only stop learning when you quit.” -Ruud Gullit

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  • “But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.” -Lindsey Buckingham

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  • “The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.” -Jack Hanna

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  • “Isn’t one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it’s basically impossible to use text to show that.” -Donald Norman

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  • “Also, the more you’re not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.” -Jason Schwartzman

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  • “Before, it was just about making the films – and now it’s releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.” -Jessica Chastain

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  • “The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It’s about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it’s worth getting your teeth into.” -Neil Jordan

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  • “It’s hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I’ve already bungled it.” -Tina Weymouth

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  • “I think I’ve spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.” -Josh Lucas

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  • “I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.” -Ezra Koenig

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  • “I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.” -Roberto Benigni

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  • “In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren’t there when I came back. It’s like, ‘Wait a second – what happened here?’ It was a real learning experience. I’ve paid my dues, I will tell you that.” -Chris…

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  • “Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.” -Marcus V. Pollio

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  • “Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.” -Corin Nemec

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  • “That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together – for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.” -Tom Araya

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  • “I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.” -Emily Carr

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  • “The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.” -Emile Hirsch

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  • “Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.” -Herbert Simon

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  • “I’m developing a record company. I’m learning how to supervise music on a film.” -Carson Daly

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  • “I’ve never gone to acting school and I never will, so I’m learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn’t seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.” -Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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  • “I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun – learning political maneuvering.” -Harold H. Greene

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  • “The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.” -Suzanne Fields

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  • “I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it’s a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I’ve always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.” -Stephen Daldry

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  • “I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.” -Christina Milian

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  • “Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it’s not working for yourself.” -Geri Halliwell

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  • “It wasn’t until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.” -Trevor Dunn

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  • “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work. I’m going to spend time with my family and friends, and I’m going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.” -James…

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  • “I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they’re learning now as a foundation for a great career.” -Thomas Keller

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  • “I can always see what I’ve done wrong. I’m always learning. I’m the perennial student.” -Pat Oliphant

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  • “It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.” -Alan Perlis

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  • “I can’t talk about foreign policy like anyone who’s spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it’s very important that I participate in that.” -Ron Silver

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  • “It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.” -Alice Koller

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  • “The learning process continues until the day you die.” -Kirk Douglas

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  • “Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.” -Sam Raimi

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  • “A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.” -Bob Edwards

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  • “The best part of making the movies… learning from the pros themselves.” -Michelle Rodriguez

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  • “Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.” -Ellen Pompeo

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  • “The failures and successes are necessary for learning.” -Wynonna Judd

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  • “We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.” -Mary Wesley

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  • “A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.” -Laura Bush

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  • “I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn’t all start just a few years ago!” -Paul Prudhomme

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  • “I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.” -Johnny Winter

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  • “One thing changes every evening: It’s the audience, and I’m working my magic. I’m always learning from it.” -Eli Wallach

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  • “I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I’m always open to learning everybody’s style – the director, the actor I’m working with.” -Freida Pinto

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  • “That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.” -Bill Sienkiewicz

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  • “But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.” -Daniel Greenberg

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  • “I’d love to go to fashion week! I’m learning more about designers, thanks to ‘Pretty Little Liars” costume designer, Mandi Line.” -Lucy Hale

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  • “People mature at different stages and I feel I’m learning a lot.” -Lee Westwood

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