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).
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“They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.” -John Morley
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“The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.” -James Weldon Johnson
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“I’ve seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It’s such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.” -Hope Davis
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“I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.” -Stanley Crouch
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“I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don’t feel.” -Jenna Ushkowitz
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“I’d love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I’d love to direct. One day. I’m learning a lot on the set of ‘The Good Wife.’” -Archie Panjabi
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“Yes – it’s the same in any other work – the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.” -Siobhan Davies
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“Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.” -Rene Redzepi
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“In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver’s license became about much more than a divorced woman’s learning to drive for the first time.” -Suzanne Vega
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“It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.” -Michael Gove
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“Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It’s tightening the belt, it’s learning how to do more with less. That’s a reality today, and we’ve got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.” -Eric Cantor
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“That is what I’m looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.” -Angela Carter
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“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.” -Ryszard Kapuscinski
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“Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it’s no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.” -Mark Hyman
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“As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn’t really matter.” -Michael Fassbender
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“I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, ‘Oh, I’m running around town and people are taking my picture’, while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.” -Christina Hendricks
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“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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“Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.” -Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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“Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.” -Debbie Stabenow
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“I’m interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it’s difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I’m learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.” -Felicity Jones
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“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.” -John Naisbitt
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“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they’re learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” -Donna Tartt
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“It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.” -Edward Sapir
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“Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.” -Beck
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“Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.” -John Sexton
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“Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.” -Kate Bosworth
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“For me, ‘Rent’ was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.” -Idina Menzel
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“I feel like that I’m learning all the time. I’m learning from new artists, from established artists… every time I listen to ’70s rock ‘n’ roll records, I’m learning. And I think that I’m just now starting to get a hold on what I do.” -Tim McGraw
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“I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.” -Ellen Page
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“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist’s office. I didn’t apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.” -Roger Goodell
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“There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.” -Steven Pinker
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“You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.” -Theodore Sturgeon
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“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.” -Frank Ocean
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“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.” -Chris Ware
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“I’m pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it’s gonna be learning my lines.” -Cory Monteith
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“I’m learning, but I’m getting better at it because I’m learning how to hear God in worship.” -Michael W. Smith
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“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!” -Maria Mitchell
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“During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.” -Michael N. Castle
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“Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.” -Keith Henson
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“I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.” -Manfred von Richthofen
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“I’m an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.” -Mandy Patinkin
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“And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.” -Dar Williams
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“When we think about online learning, it’s such ‘early days.’ Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,’Who’s every going to need more than 640K of memory?’” -Reed Hastings
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“I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.” -Georgina Chapman
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“Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.” -Andre Agassi
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“The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.” -Jared Diamond
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“You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.” -Karlie Kloss
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“I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.” -Kenny Loggins
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“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.” -Helen Mirren
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“There’s some movies I watch, they’re kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.” -Mike Mills
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“I’ve always been an avid reader. If I don’t have a book in the car, I’ll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don’t even remember learning to read.” -Janis Ian
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“I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it’s not a western invention.” -Garry Kasparov
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“What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you’re going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.” -Elizabeth Olsen
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“I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It’s not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.”…
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“I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer’s heart.” -Sandra Cisneros
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“The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.” -Armstrong Williams
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“My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you’re still learning language. It’s using the same part of the brain.” -Andrew Bird
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“The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.” -Dee Hock
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“As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn’t from school, it was the ‘hood. The influences of the ‘hood are very powerful.” -Junior Seau
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“The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn’t make you less of what you were. You are still you.” -Tony Snow
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“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can’t do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.” -Ann Bancroft
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“I can’t sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.” -Buddy Rich
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“Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.” -Adam Savage
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“If you look at the opening of ‘Private Ryan,’ you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.” -Gary Ross
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“I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!” -Jane Siberry
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“Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.” -Orson Scott Card
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“Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.” -William Godwin
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“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day. ‘Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here’s Matt researching in aisle six of his local library’. A few hours of that and they’d go home.” -Matt Damon
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“Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as ‘providing benefit to the customer’ anything else is waste.” -Eric Ries
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“It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.” -Rory McIlroy
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“I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.” -Judy Holliday
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“I’m really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road – I’m looking forward to discovering that.” -Matthew Fox
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“Also, I’m always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.” -Lisa Loeb
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“You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.” -Ken Burns
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“The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.” -Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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“It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn’t be condemned for leaving.” -Ezra Miller
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“When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.” -Jet Li
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“If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.” -Patrick Swayze
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“It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.” -Floyd Abrams
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“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.” -Rosalyn S. Yalow
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“I am involved with ‘Write Girl,’ which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls…
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“I think I’m learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven’t always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.” -Winona Ryder
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“This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn’t mean we can get there from here.” -Kevin Kelly
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“Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” -Tom Colicchio
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“Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.” -Richard King
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“Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.” -Lord Mountbatten
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“Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.” -Indra Nooyi
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“A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else it’s to do with me.” -Boy George
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“I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.” -Gail Simmons
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“I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.” -Michael Schenker
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“Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as ‘the intelligent layperson’ does exist – in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.” -Stephen Jay Gould
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“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.” -Robertson Davies
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“He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this – that he knew nothing yet.” -Aphra Behn
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“Whether it’s 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what’s going on. But if you’re lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn’t know.” -Joe Namath
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“Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I’ll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I’ve never found an easy way.” -Paul Lynde
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“I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.” -George Strait
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“No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.” -John Selden
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“I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There’s nothing that I’m too scared to have a go at.” -Emily Mortimer
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“After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.” -John Hartford
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“After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.” -Hu Shih
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“I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.” -Geddy Lee
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“From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn’t learning at the same pace as other kids.” -Carre Otis
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“So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.” -Mika Waltari
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“Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.” -Carter Burwell
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“The learning curve is ‘The Hobbit’ is being shot in 3D.” -Andy Serkis
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“Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won’t be restricted by age.” -Carol Vorderman
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“You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.” -Lucinda Williams
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“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.” -Terry Eagleton
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“I’m constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion – to always be learning and growing.” -Kristin Chenoweth
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“Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.” -Robert Caro
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“Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.” -Ellsworth Huntington
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“Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.” -Renee Fleming
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“I don’t think I’ve ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.” -Delta Goodrem
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“I’ve bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I’ve made over the past 15, 20 years. It’s just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.” -Phil Collins
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“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.” -John Gray
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“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.” -Pearl Bailey
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“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that’s what I think life is about.” -Taylor Momsen
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“I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.” -Cat Deeley
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“Learning what you don’t want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.” -Joe Flanigan
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“The only animals I’m not comfortable with are parrots, but I’m learning as I go. I’m getting better and better at ’em. I really am.” -Steve Irwin
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“Emotional ‘literacy’ implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children’s learning and as individual mentors.” -Daniel Goleman
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“I’m passionate about learning. I’m passionate about life.” -Tom Cruise
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“I’m writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.” -Shirley Knight
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“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.” -Nan Fairbrother
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“Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.” -Allan Bloom
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“It’s learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy – whether it’s for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.” -Leigh Steinberg
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“I’m nearing the end of the road and still learning.” -Mike Wallace
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“The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.” -Mark Zandi
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“It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can’t complain I’ve been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I’m learning.” -Sofia Vergara
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“Learning how to relive again on life’s terms sure doesn’t do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.” -Joe Nichols
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“Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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“What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I’m happy.” -Jeremy Renner
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“There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.” -Wayne Rooney
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“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.” -Glenda Jackson
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“I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.” -Willie Stargell
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“TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day’s lines while you are shooting today’s scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” -Sharon Stone
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“When I was first learning songs, I’d have a favorite song, and I’d take the chords and twist them around. I’d learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.” -Alicia Keys
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“I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” -T. D. Jakes
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“I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I’m learning to say I’ve got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.” -Paul Gascoigne
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“By keeping my hand in that, it’s the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.” -Andrew Weil
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“I feel like I’m still learning a lot. I think there’s a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.” -Anna Kendrick
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“For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.” -Eric Alterman
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“I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.” -Andrea Jung
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“Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.” -Tom Clancy
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“My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.” -Rita Dove
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“I finish so many books it’s amazing. I’m also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.” -Kellan Lutz
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“I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.” -Leona Lewis
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“People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, ‘Soave,’ and say, ‘Oh, O.K., cool.’” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.” -Nikki Giovanni
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“There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.” -Jonathan Ive
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“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.” -Stephen Vizinczey
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“What I’m still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.” -J. J. Abrams
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“Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.” -Michelle Malkin
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“A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.” -William Allen White
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“Teaching is the royal road to learning.” -Jessamyn West
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“People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.” -Joy Page
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“Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.” -Jamie Foxx
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“I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life…and I’m just learning to follow the path he’s laid before me.” -Monica Denise Brown
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“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.” -Samuel Smiles
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“I’m happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.” -Jeb Bush
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“I’m trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I’ll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.” -Corey Haim
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“I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.” -Dominic Monaghan
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“I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.” -Ziggy Marley
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“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” -Flora Lewis
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“Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down’s Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.” -Christopher Eccleston
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“And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.” -Duane G. Carey
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“Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.” -Edward Young
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“I can’t do the same movies all my life. I’m conscious of that. But it’s a trade-off. ‘Dear John’ allowed me to do movies I’ve wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I’m still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So…
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“I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.” -Shimon Peres
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“Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.” -Jean Henri Fabre
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“The spotlight will always be on me, but it’s something I’m learning to live with as the years go by.” -David Beckham
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“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body.” -Sloane Crosley
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“I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.” -Ted Allen
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“I am growing and learning. There’s so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I’m gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I’m not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.” -Jordin Sparks
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