Learned Quotes
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And then I knew that I would have to relearn the meaning of every word I had ever learned. I would have to learn how to translate all those words. Thousands of them. Millions of them. And then I smiled and felt the tears running down my face. Finally I understood. It wasn’t the words that mattered. It was me. I mattered. So now I would have to fight to translate myself back into the world of the living.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
Gary D. Schmidt
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
George Pope Morris -
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
Ray Bradbury -
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
Marcel Proust -
People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves?
Elizabeth Prentiss
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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
Tom Ridge -
I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
Steve Carr -
That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.
Michelle Moran -
We can't wait to make the second album, ... We learned a lot on the road. When we made 'Hot Fuss' we recorded the songs just the way we played them when we were playing bars in Vegas. This time out we're going to take our time with the guitar and keyboard sounds.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin -
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
Haruki Murakami -
If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.
Mike Krieger -
I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Dana Reeve
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People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
Eugene J. Martin -
I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.
Lauren Bacall -
The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
Elisabeth Elliot -
What is important is not to give up hope. I should have learned to be patient by now.
Eva Braun