William Arthur Ward Quotes

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

William Arthur Ward

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Mission

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • People
  • Culture
  • Grandson

• GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Dr. Dobson, ...in the Daily Oklahoman, you were quoted saying, 'Patrick Leahy is a God's people hater. I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people.' Now, Dr. Dobson, that doesn't sound like a particularly Christian thing to say. Do you think you owe Senator Leahy an apology?

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

  

  Charles J. Shields

• Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

  

  Joan Baez
  • World
  • Job

• We are trying to schedule music every other Saturday night from 7 to 10 p.m. We like to feature local talent.

  

  George Benson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Night

• Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Learning
  • Understanding
  • Facts