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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
– Edward Thorndike
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Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'
– Rian Johnson
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Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.
– Ernest Istook
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Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.
– John Sexton
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Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.
– Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
– Taylor Momsen
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From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
– Carre Otis
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For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
– Eric Alterman
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For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
– Dweezil Zappa
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
– Fabrice Luchini
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For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
– Miuccia Prada
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
– Idina Menzel
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
– Penelope Leach
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For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
– Michael Koryta
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Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
– Alex Ferguson
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Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
– Michael Stuhlbarg
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
– Felix Adler
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Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
– William Allan
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Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
– Tommy Mottola
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Everything is a learning experience.
– Angus T. Jones
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Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
– Audrey Hepburn
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Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
– Patsy Kensit
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Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.
– Renee Fleming
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
– Oscar Wilde
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Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
– Beck
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
– Sam Raimi
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Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
– Bill Budge
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Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
– Corin Nemec
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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
– Daniel Goleman
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Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
– Steve Jobs
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
– Jason Sudeikis
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
– Michael N. Castle
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Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
– Spike Jonze
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Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
– Richard King
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
– Albert J. Nock
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Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.
– Izabel Goulart
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Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
– Bubba Sparxxx
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
– Bill Rancic
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Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
– Andre Braugher
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Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
– Stephen Jay Gould
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
– Albert J. Nock
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
– Liz Phair
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Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
– Lord Mountbatten
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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
– Michael Gove
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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
– Shirley Henderson
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
– Nate Silver
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By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
– Andrew Weil
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But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.
– Jeff Dunham
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
– Anna Neagle
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But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
– Benjamin Hoff
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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
– Anna Neagle
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But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.
– Ty Segall
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But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
– Lindsey Buckingham
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Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
– Armstrong Williams
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
– Francesco Petrarch
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Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
– Renee Fleming
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
– Larry Speakes
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
– Adam Savage
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Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
– Jessica Chastain
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Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
– Rocco DiSpirito
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As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.
– Troy Vincent
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.
– Junior Seau
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As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
– Jhene Aiko
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As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.
– Michael Fassbender
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As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
– Tom Udall
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Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
– Jerry Saltz
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Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
– Mickey Hart
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Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
– Michelle Malkin
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Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
– Bonnie Blair
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And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.
– Duane G. Carey
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
– Nicolas Roeg
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And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
– Trip Hawkins
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And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
– Heston Blumenthal
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
– William Labov
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Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
– Patty Berg
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
– John Milius
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Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
– Jason Schwartzman
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Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.
– Lisa Loeb
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All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
– Nick Lowe
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
– Benjamin Spock
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All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
– Robert Ley
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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
– Alva Myrdal
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
– Joseph Lancaster
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Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.
– Eric Cantor
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After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
– John Hartford
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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
– James Tobin
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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
– Hu Shih
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Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
– Robin Cousins
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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
– Glenda Jackson
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
– Kate Bosworth
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
– Felicity Jones
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
– Bruce Lee
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
– Will Rogers
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
– George Herbert
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
– Laura Bush
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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.
– Boy George
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