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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  

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• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  

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• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  

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• 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