944 private quotes tagged learning

“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.” — Roger Ascham

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“There is a learning quality in all of our shows.” — Trisha Goddard

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“I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.” — Anthony Michael Hall

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“If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.” — Ryne Sandberg

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“The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.” — Samantha Barks

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“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.” — Albert J. Nock

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“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.” — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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“I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.” — David R. Ellis

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“Learning something new is fun.” — Alex Trebek

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“One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.” — Thomas Menino

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“Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.” — Bill Budge

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“The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.” — Diane Cilento

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“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.” — Albert J. Nock

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“It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.” — Robert B. Parker

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“Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.” — John Milius

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“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.” — Albert J. Nock

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“That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.” — Kent McCord

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“I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.” — Oren Peli

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“The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.” — Brendon Burchard

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“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.” — Helen Frankenthaler

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“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.” — James Fallows

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“The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.” — Tracy Kidder

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“It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.” — Meshell Ndegeocello

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“Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.” — Hilary Swank

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“Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.” — Alex Ferguson

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