Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ~By Abigail Adams ~
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. ~By Lloyd Bentsen ~
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. ~By Carter Burwell ~
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process. ~By Fay Godwin ~
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. ~By Warren G. Bennis ~
I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink. ~By Dana Plato ~
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. ~By Buffalo Bill ~
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something. ~By David James Elliott ~
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. ~By Dianne Feinstein ~
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. ~By Andy Warhol ~
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~By Sam Keen ~
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. ~By Allan Bloom ~
On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.' ~By Will Smith ~
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories. ~By Marguerite Moreau ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ~By Alexander Pope ~
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. ~By Robert Sternberg ~
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. ~By James Iha ~
I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it. ~By Tony Williams ~
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me. ~By Ajay Naidu ~
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. ~By Fred Frith ~
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~By John Morley ~
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. ~By Ally Sheedy ~
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ~By B. B. King ~
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. ~By David Selby ~
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. ~By Tom Udall ~
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. ~By Andre Braugher ~
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. ~By Floyd Abrams ~
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs. ~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. ~By Queen Latifah ~
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. ~By Mark Kennedy ~
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. ~By Art Garfunkel ~
I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too. ~By Christopher Meloni ~
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. ~By Drew Barrymore ~
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. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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. ~By Steve Irwin ~
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. ~By Jonathan Swift ~
I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about. ~By Cary Elwes ~
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. ~By Vivien Leigh ~
I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know. ~By Lena Horne ~
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ~By Daniel Defoe ~
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. ~By Matthew Henry ~
I've never stopped learning. ~By Mick Taylor ~
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. ~By Herb Ritts ~
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God. ~By Albert Barnes ~
I enjoy learning technical details. ~By Ken Follett ~
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. ~By Joy Page ~
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. ~By William Labov ~
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. ~By Wilma Rudolph ~
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ~By Jeff Bezos ~
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. ~By Jeff Healey ~
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time. ~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ~By Julius Erving ~
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. ~By Herman Cain ~
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. ~By Felix Adler ~
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ~By Jeremy Collier ~
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. ~By Dee Hock ~
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. ~By Richard King ~
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. ~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. ~By Percival Lowell ~
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. ~By Helen Mirren ~
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience. ~By Corin Nemec ~
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~By Samuel Butler ~
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet. ~By Doris Roberts ~
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. ~By Mary Wesley ~
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. ~By Jim Carrey ~
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ~By Vernon Law ~
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things. ~By Christopher Meloni ~
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~By Douglas Adams ~
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ~By B. B. King ~
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ~By Leo Buscaglia ~
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick. ~By Paul Kane ~
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. ~By Robert Ley ~
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes. ~By Jack Hanna ~
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. ~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I am still learning. ~By Michelangelo ~
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. ~By Miguel de Icaza ~
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ~By Edward Sapir ~
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ~By Edward Cocker ~
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. ~By Norton Juster ~
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. ~By Anna Friel ~
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ~By Ayn Rand ~
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession. ~By Halle Berry ~
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning. ~By Mario Lopez ~
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. ~By Laura Bush ~
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning. ~By Siobhan Davies ~
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you. ~By Tony Snow ~
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. ~By Peter Drucker ~
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. ~By Jaime King ~
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open. ~By Trevor Dunn ~
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. ~By Christopher Eccleston ~
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. ~By Larry Speakes ~
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn. ~By Jaime King ~
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. ~By Tim Holden ~
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop. ~By Doug E. Fresh ~
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