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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
– Morris West
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The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
– Elliot Richardson
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The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.
– Tyne Daly
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
– Samantha Barks
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The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
– Armstrong Williams
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The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
– Neil Jordan
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
– Sean William Scott
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The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
– Diane Cilento
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
– James Weldon Johnson
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
– Buffalo Bill
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That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.
– Joe Nichols
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That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
– Tom Araya
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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
– Bill Sienkiewicz
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
– Doris Lessing
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That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
– Angela Carter
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
– Haile Gebrselassie
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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
– Mary Wesley
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
– H. Jackson Browne
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That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
– Kent McCord
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
– Andre Agassi
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Teaching is the royal road to learning.
– Jessamyn West
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
– Warren G. Bennis
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
– Roy Blount, Jr.
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Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
– Miyamoto Musashi
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Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
– George Nethercutt
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Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.
– Herman Cain
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Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.
– Geri Halliwell
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Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
– Mitt Romney
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Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?
– Dennis Moore
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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
– Robert Sternberg
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
– James Iha
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
– E. O. Wilson
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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.
– Sonny Terry
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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
– Samuel Richardson
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Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
– Tim Holden
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
– Solon
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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
– Mark Kennedy
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Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.
– Tom Colicchio
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
– Euripides
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Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
– Debbie Stabenow
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Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
– Roy Romer
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
– Cameron Crowe
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
– Hal David
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
– Albert Pike
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Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
– Marcus V. Pollio
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
– Andre Breton
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
– Edsger Dijkstra
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People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
– Lori Greiner
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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
– Andy Warhol
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People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
– Lee Westwood
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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
– Joy Page
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People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
– Nina Garcia
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
– Jamie Campbell Bower
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
– Ryan Adams
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Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
– Mark Hyman
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Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
– Thomas Nashe
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
– Mac Thornberry
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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
– Bonnie Hunt
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Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
– Abraham Cahan
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
– Audre Lorde
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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
– Eli Wallach
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One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
– Thomas Menino
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Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.
– Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.
– Lea Thompson
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Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.
– Booboo Stewart
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Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
– Robert Caro
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Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
– Anna Friel
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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
– Antisthenes
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Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.
– Jeff Healey
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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
– Ashley Scott
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
– William Congreve
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No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
– Michael J. Fox
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
– Arthur Erickson
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No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
– John Selden
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No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
– Jonathan Kozol
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
– Archibald Wavell
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
– Thomas Szasz
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My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
– Joseph Stiglitz
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My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
– Chick Corea
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My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
– Brian Lamb
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My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
– Andrew Bird
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
– Rita Dove
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My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
– Novak Djokovic
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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
– Georg Solti
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My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I'm learning so much from her.
– Joanne Woodward
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
– Idina Menzel
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My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
– James Lafferty
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
– Heraclitus
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you're cooking.
– Billy Campbell
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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.
– Marvin Olasky
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Medieval learning was really advanced.
– Terry Jones
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
– William Cowper
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Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.
– Jamie Foxx
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Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.
– Tom Clancy
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Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
– Keith Henson
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