I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
~By Conrad Burns ~
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~By Abigail Adams ~
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
~By Carson Daly ~
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
~By George Lucas ~
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
~By Bo Derek ~
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
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 ~
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
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.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~By Sam Keen ~
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
~By William Hazlitt ~
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
~By Sly Stone ~
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.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~By Fred Rogers ~
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
~By Richard Branson ~
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
~By Josh Lucas ~
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
~By Michael Baden ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
~By Donald Davis ~
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~By William Pollard ~
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
~By Chad Hugo ~
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
~By Nagarjuna ~
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
~By William Pollard ~
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
~By Brian Eno ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
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.
~By Diane Cilento ~
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
~By Nan Fairbrother ~
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
~By Isaac Watts ~
The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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 ~
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
~By Winona Ryder ~
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
~By Mick Mars ~
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
~By David Hume ~
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~By Bill Gates ~
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.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
~By Audre Lorde ~
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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.
~By Morris West ~
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.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
~By Robert Byrne ~
It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
~By Christopher Parker ~
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.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
~By Doc Watson ~
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.
~By Donna Tartt ~
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.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
~By David R. Ellis ~
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
~By Helen Mirren ~
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
~By Dennis Brown ~
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.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
~By Henry Longhurst ~
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
~By Tom Clancy ~
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
~By Nelson Goodman ~
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
~By Tony Buzan ~
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
~By Dick Schaap ~
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
~By Drew Carey ~
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
~By Cher ~
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
~By William Penn ~
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 ~
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
~By Geddy Lee ~
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.
~By Lynn Davies ~
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 ~
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
~By Doug Larson ~
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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.
~By Neil Jordan ~
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
~By Washington Irving ~
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
~By Roger Ascham ~
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
~By Thomas Menino ~
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~By Plato ~
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~By Ray Charles ~
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
~By B. B. King ~
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
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