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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."


"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."


"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."


"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."


"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."


"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."


"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."


"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."


"We learn better when learning is a game."


"The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation."


"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."


"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."


"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."


"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."


"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."


"To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life."


"I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it."


"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why."


"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."


"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."


"Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime."


"No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training."


"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."


"Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life."


"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."


"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."


"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."


"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active."


"Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself."


"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."


"So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album."


"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."


"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."


"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."


"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
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