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Learning Quotes
"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active."
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"Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself."
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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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"Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing."
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"We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that."
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"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
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"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself."
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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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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
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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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"The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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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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"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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"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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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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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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"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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"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
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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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"Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart."
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"Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence."
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"We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new."
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"Living in the age of the Internet and being a part of the information generation, we have unlimited access to an unprecedented wealth of knowledge and learning. We have no excuse to show up to an appointment, a sales call, a date, or an important meeting without learning everything we can to tip the odds in our favor."
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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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"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."
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"I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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