Plato Quotes
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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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.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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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.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
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Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
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A woman is a foreign land.
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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
