Morris West Quotes

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Learning
  • Young
  • More

• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • World
  • Know

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Learning
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Learning

• Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Process

• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Learning

• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Literature

• To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Process

• He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Learning

• I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by,learning the last bright routes, survivorwhere your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.A woman like that is not ashamed to die.I have been her kind.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Die
  • Learning
  • Wind

• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Curiosity

• Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Humanity
  • Creativity
  • Lipstick

• Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Pretty
  • Personality

• There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Important
  • Character

• The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

  

  Jordan Gavaris
  • Person
  • Side
  • Empathic

• The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

  

  Morris West
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Singers