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Learning Quotes


"Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."


"I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool."


"We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new."



"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages."


"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."



"The only things you learn are the things you tame."


"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."


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


"Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning."


"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."


"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."


"Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge."



"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."


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


"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."


"Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock."


"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."


"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."


"Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing."


"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."


"Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way."



"Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient."


"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."


"You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life."



"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."


"There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it."



"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."


"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."
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