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Learning Quotes
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
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"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."
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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
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"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."
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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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"What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning."
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"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself."
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"And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning."
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"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."
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"Learning is a great experience of life."
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"Of course I can read", he said. "Jesus Christ.""Well, then, what are you trying to tell me? That you don't want to?" "No. I-" He closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his nose. "-I don't know why I'm trying to tell you anything. I can read. I just can't read book.""So pretend it's a really long street sign and muddle through it."
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"True learning is a journey without end."
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon " your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark. Each tweet erases its predecessor."
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"I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?"
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"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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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."
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"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."
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"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
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"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
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"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel."
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"I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good."
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"As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say."
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"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring."
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"A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me."
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"You have to study a great deal to know a little."
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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
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"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."
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"You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process."
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"The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated."
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