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.
Quotes to Explore
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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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.
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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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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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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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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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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.
