944 private quotes tagged learning

“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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“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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“I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.” — Cher

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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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“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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“Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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“I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.” — Christina Ricci

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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 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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“No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.” — William Congreve

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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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“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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“I love learning new techniques.” — David Bailey

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“Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” — Cher

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“Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.” — Renee Fleming

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“When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.” — Jackie Chan

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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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“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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“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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“The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.” — Buffalo Bill

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“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a d--n good memory.” — Ray Charles

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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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“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 carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.” — Leon Trotsky

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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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