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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“I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.” -Ringo Starr
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“I’m learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.” -Halle Berry
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“All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.” -Joseph Lancaster
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“I’ve had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.” -Joseph P. Kennedy
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“I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?” -Beth Ditto
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“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.” -Jeremy Taylor
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“I’ve always loved music, but I never really played anything. After ‘Walk the Line’ and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“I’m pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It’s still not back to normal, and I don’t know if it ever will be, but I’m learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.” -Shawn Johnson
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“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.” -Elisabeth Rohm
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“In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the ‘Today’ show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.” -Jane Pauley
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“I’m always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.” -Christopher Meloni
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“By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.” -Nate Silver
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“I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.” -Lindsay Lohan
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“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.” -Maya Lin
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“My learning process is by eye alone it’s not at all scientific.” -Miuccia Prada
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“Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.” -Liz Phair
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“One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.” -Ashley Montagu
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“Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar’s life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.” -Felix Adler
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“A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s all a little new, and I’m still learning as I go.” -Orlando Bloom
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“My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It’s just like anything else,…
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“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it’s a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.” -Andrew Greeley
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“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.” -Petrarch
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“There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.” -Anthony Trollope
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“We’re learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they’re broken. We’re also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings – stepsiblings, half-siblings – and the surprising power they can have.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what’s universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.” -Laura Linney
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“If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.” -Giada De Laurentiis
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“Producing is just a big learning experience.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.” -John Jay Chapman
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“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” -Jeff Bezos
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“Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” -John Holt
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“My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, ‘OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,’ because we didn’t know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.” -Novak Djokovic
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“My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don’t see that changing. When I’m not skating, I love to surf. I’m open to the new experiences and opportunities.” -Ryan Sheckler
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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.” -Benjamin Spock
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“I’m still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don’t know.” -Lena Horne
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“There’s no way I can justify my salary level, but I’m learning to live with it.” -Drew Carey
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“I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.” -Antonio Banderas
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“I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.” -Ben Affleck
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“No Child Left Behind’s fourth-grade gains aren’t learning gains, they’re testing gains. That’s why they don’t last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it’s Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.” -Howard Gardner
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“I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.” -Sophia Bush
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“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.” -Jean Baudrillard
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“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.” -Leon Trotsky
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“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.” -William Glasser
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“Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.” -Annette Funicello
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“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.” -John McEnroe
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“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.” -Carl T. Rowan
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“Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.” -Miranda Lambert
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“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.” -Ray Charles
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“The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.” -Buffalo Bill
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“I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.” -Daniel Defoe
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“We’ll be going to the fish market and a farmer’s market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I’m trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that’s all about.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“It’s really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven’t. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.” -Bo Derek
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“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.” -Julius Erving
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“I was studying for the SAT’s and learning lines.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that…
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“I’m learning English at the moment. I can say ‘Big Ben’, ‘Hello Rodney’, ‘Tower Bridge’ and ‘Loo’.” -Cher
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“When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.” -Jackie Chan
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“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?” -Max de Pree
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“And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.” -Heston Blumenthal
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“I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.” -Christina Ricci
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“I’m less worried about accomplishment – as younger people always can’t help but be – and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
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“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.” -Neil Gaiman
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“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.” -Edward Gibbon
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“I’ve figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.” -John Mayer
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“The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it’s to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it’s well-received and lives in somebody else.” -Yo-Yo Ma
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“Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.” -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.” -E. W. Howe
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“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” -Mortimer Adler
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“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.” -Kwame Nkrumah
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“I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I’m learning how to do basic wiring.” -Sandra Bullock
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“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature’s ecosystems.” -Arthur Erickson
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“It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.” -Adam…
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“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.” -B. B. King
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“What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing
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“That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.” -Haile Gebrselassie
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“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.” -David Duchovny
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“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” -Arthur Koestler
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“Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.” -Herman Cain
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“I’m going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work – which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I’m a lousy delegator, but I’m learning.” -Alton Brown
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“It’s like learning a language you can’t speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.” -Fred Frith
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“I’m interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.” -Jessica Simpson
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“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.” -Phil Crosby
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“An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world… learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.” -Jesse Jackson
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“It’s a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.” -Layne Staley
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“We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.” -David Brainerd
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“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.” -Natalie Portman
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“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.” -Thomas Szasz
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“There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.” -Morgan Freeman
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“It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‘Well, yeah,’ but you start to think, ‘Why not, though?’ What makes one more valuable than another?” -David Byrne
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“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.” -Warren G. Bennis
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“‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” -Dianne Feinstein
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“Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.” -Emma Thompson
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“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.” -George Herbert
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“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.” -Frederick William Faber
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“I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I’ve definitely learned a lot.” -Miley Cyrus
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“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.” -Henry Louis Gates
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“I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I’m learning how to deal with it. That’s why I’ve chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.” -Jonathan Davis
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“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.” -Novalis
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“Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.” -Samuel Richardson
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“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.” -Carl Rogers
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“The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.” -Mark Zuckerberg
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“Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” -Audre Lorde
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“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” -Chuck Grassley
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“It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee’s knees, and it’s not true.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.” -Newt Gingrich
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“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.” -Gregory Bateson
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“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.” -David Hume
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“My father is a real idealist, and he’s all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding ‘No.’ But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I’d be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning,…
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“You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.” -Tori Amos
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“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.” -Edward Thorndike
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“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say…
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“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.” -Hermann Hesse
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“A child’s learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.” -James S. Coleman
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“I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.” -Maria Sharapova
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“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” -Eliphas Levi
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“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today’s events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.” -Aeschylus
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“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” -Doug Larson
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“I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.” -Vivien Leigh
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“Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.” -Jerry Saltz
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.” -Abigail Van Buren
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“This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.” -Bill Maher
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“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.” -Albert Pike
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“Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.” -Luciano Pavarotti
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“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.” -Robert Byrne
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“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.” -Umberto Eco
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“Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.” -Ritchie Blackmore
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“Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn’t. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases…
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“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.” -George Lucas
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” -Antisthenes
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.” -Josh Billings
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“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.” -Timothy Leary
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“I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.” -Robert Fulghum
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“Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.” -Andre Breton
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“I think you’re working and learning until you die.” -J. K. Rowling
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“I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I’ve been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.” -Ricky Williams
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“I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.” -Chantal Kreviazuk
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“No, I’m no enemy to learning it hurts not me.” -William Congreve
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.” -William Penn
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“Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.” -William Cowper
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“Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.” -Taylor Caldwell
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“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.” -Liz Carpenter
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“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?” -Bill Watterson
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“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.” -William Hazlitt
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“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” -Bob Geldof
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“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” -Eartha Kitt
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“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.” -Lillian Smith
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“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?” -James Madison
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“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.” -Steve Martin
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“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.” -Joseph Addison
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“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.” -Lewis Carroll
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“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.” -Joseph Joubert
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“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.” -Lillian Gish
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“I’m learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.” -Zoe Saldana
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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen
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“I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.” -Brian Eno
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“Much learning does not teach understanding.” -Heraclitus
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“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.” -Alice Miller
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“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” -Steve Harvey
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“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.” -Matthew Henry
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