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Learning Quotes
"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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"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."
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"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
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"Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't."
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"For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."
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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
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"I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was."
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"He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about."
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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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"Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on."
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"Learn more and Know more."
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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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"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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"Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits,-that is to say, it was in a thorough mess."
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"From mistakes you get experience, from experiments you get again expirience and there are a lot of out there positive and negative stuff which if you done you get experience. And that' experience is like in the games you are better and you are skilled person... So what would you do know? Choose experience or not?"
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"I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography."
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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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"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
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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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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"
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"It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry."
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"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself."
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"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
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"Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ."
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"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."
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"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."
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"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of 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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"I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn."
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"Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to."
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"It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage."
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"Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia."
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"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
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"The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness."
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"People learn when they are ready to learn. Are you ready?"
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"A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right."
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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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