944 private quotes tagged learning

“I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.” — Burt Ward

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“Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?” — John Ensign

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“Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.” — Eric Allin Cornell

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“Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.” — Bubba Sparxxx

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“The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.” — Elliot Richardson

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“Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.” — Thomas Nashe

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“Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.” — Dennis Brown

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“Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.” — Roy Blount, Jr.

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“Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.” — Haley Joel Osment

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“I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.” — Mick Cornett

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“And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.” — Trip Hawkins

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“If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.” — Benjamin Walker

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“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.” — Hermann Ebbinghaus

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“Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.” — Jamie Campbell Bower

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“I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.” — Donald Davis

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“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.” — Jhene Aiko

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“I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.” — Ben Lovett

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“It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.” — Valerie Simpson

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“The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.” — Graeme Le Saux

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“I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.” — Fay Godwin

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“This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.” — Bill Rancic

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“I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.” — David Knopfler

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“I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'” — Ryan Hall

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“I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.” — Dannii Minogue

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“All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.” — Nick Lowe

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