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Learning Quotes
"To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject."
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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."
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"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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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."
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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
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"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
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"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."
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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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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."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
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"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."
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"There's little growth and progression without learning and reflection."
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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner."
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"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
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"To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus."
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"I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last."
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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."
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"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."
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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
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"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
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"I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool."
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"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
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