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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
– Jonathan Swift
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
– Angelina Jolie
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
– Jean Henri Fabre
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
– William James
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
– Bill Watterson
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
– Lillian Smith
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
– Jackie Chan
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When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
– Reed Hastings
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
– Alicia Keys
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
– Mstislav Rostropovich
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When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.
– Colin Cooper
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When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
– Bruce Hornsby
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When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
– Edward Cocker
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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
– Helen Frankenthaler
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What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
– James Madison
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
– Doris Lessing
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What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
– Jeremy Renner
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What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
– Andrew Lo
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What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
– Elizabeth Olsen
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
– J. J. Abrams
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What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.
– Wilford Brimley
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Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.
– Dennis Brown
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Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.
– Andy Roddick
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Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
– Stephen Chbosky
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
– Nate Silver
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We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
– Ray Nagin
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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
– Mary Wesley
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
– Burt Rutan
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We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.
– Tom Conway
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
– Marvin Minsky
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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
– Layne Staley
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
– Jesse Jackson
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We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
– Michelle Obama
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We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
– Miguel de Icaza
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We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
– Plato
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We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
– Linda Lavin
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We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.
– Eric Cantor
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
– Candice S. Miller
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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
– Simon van der Meer
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
– Thomas Huxley
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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
– Eric Allin Cornell
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Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.
– Ginni Rometty
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To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
– Robert Sternberg
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To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
– Peter R. Grant
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To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.
– Stephen Chow
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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.
– Eliza Haywood
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
– Jeremy Taylor
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This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
– Bill Rancic
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This life is a process of learning.
– Lauryn Hill
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Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
– John Ensign
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There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.
– Mike Mills
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There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
– Drew Carey
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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
– Morgan Freeman
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There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.
– Rene Redzepi
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
– Jonathan Ive
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There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
– Brad Gilbert
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There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
– Anthony Trollope
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There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.
– Bubba Watson
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There is a learning quality in all of our shows.
– Trisha Goddard
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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
– Steven Pinker
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
– Richard Bach
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
– Wayne Rooney
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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
– Lynn Davies
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
– Maria Mitchell
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The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
– Emile Hirsch
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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
– Brendon Burchard
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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
– Will Smith
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The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.
– Temple Grandin
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The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
– Mark Zandi
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
– David Beckham
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The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.
– Julia Louis Dreyfus
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
– Tony Snow
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
– Bruce Cockburn
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
– Yo-Yo Ma
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The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.
– Sarah Wayne Callies
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
– Hermann Ebbinghaus
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
– Mortimer Adler
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The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
– Dee Hock
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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
– John Gray
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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.
– Graeme Le Saux
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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
– Maya Lin
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The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
– Steve Irwin
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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
– Donna Tartt
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The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
– Humphrey Carpenter
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
– Jack Nicholson
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
– Jared Diamond
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
– Audre Lorde
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
– Thomas Merton
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The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.
– Andy Serkis
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
– Kirk Douglas
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
– Nicholas Negroponte
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
– John McEnroe
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
– Baruch Spinoza
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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
– Tracy Kidder
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The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
– Dusty Baker
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The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
– Wynonna Judd
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