944 private quotes tagged learning

“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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“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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“You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.” — Tori Amos

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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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“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.” — Novalis

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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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“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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“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” — Doris Lessing

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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” — Tad Williams

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“Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.” — Samuel Richardson

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“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.” — Frederick William Faber

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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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“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.” — George Herbert

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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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“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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“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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“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 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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“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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“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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“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.” — Phil Crosby

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“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.” — Petrarch

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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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“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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“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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