Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
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• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
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• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

  Indra Devi
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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.

  

  Maggie Grace
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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
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• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
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• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Culture
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• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

  

  Samantha Morton
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  • My Life

• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
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• The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Remember
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• Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Art
  • Management

• I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Learning
  • Clothes
  • WIld

• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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  • Reverence
  • Despise