Learning Quotes
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
Ira Glass
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
Dan Castellaneta
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Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
Alexandra Kotur
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Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
Patsy Kensit
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It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
Brandi Carlile
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I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
Leo Fitzpatrick
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Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
George Nethercutt
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School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.
Neil Postman
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
Randy Pausch
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When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
Philippe Petit
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Every time you go out on the track, which is very technical and unique, you learn something different. This place, if you keep practicing, keep running and learning every corner, you'll be consistently fast.
Helio Castroneves
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A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
John Lasseter
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing
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I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.
Jenna Dewan
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Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.
John Donne
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I am forever learning and changing.
W. Edwards Deming
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
Magnus Scheving
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
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I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.
Martin Chalfie
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Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
Anson Jones