Learning Quotes

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship"

"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not"

Phil Crosby, Author

"The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"The failures and successes are necessary for learning"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar"

Fred Frith, Composer

"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"It's not the teaching, it's the learning"

Sly Stone, Musician

"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning"

Antisthenes, Philosopher

"All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning"

William Scott

"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before"

Shawn Johnson, Athlete

"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"There is a learning quality in all of our shows"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

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