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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
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Personal Development
"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."
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Personal Development
"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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Personal Development
"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."
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Personal Development
"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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Personal Development
"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
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Personal Development
"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."
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Personal Development
"People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!"
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Personal Development
"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
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Personal Development
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
Country
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Father
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
Learning
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Life
"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time."
Time
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
Success
"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
People
"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."
Family
"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
Enjoyment
"Everyone needs some time to themselves."
Time
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