944 private quotes tagged learning

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.” — Ritchie Blackmore

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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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“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” — Stephen Covey

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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.” — Christopher Meloni

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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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“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” — Thomas Szasz

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“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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

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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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“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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“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” — William James

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“Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.” — Isaac Watts

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“I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.” — Ashley Scott

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

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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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“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.” — Louisa May Alcott

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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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“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.” — David Hume

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

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“I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.” — Christopher Meloni

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