Learning Quotes
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Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
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For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.
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I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.
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I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.
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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
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You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.
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I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
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Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.
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I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
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I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.
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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
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When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.
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Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.
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Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.
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My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.
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We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
