Learning Quotes

"If you desire ease, forsake learning"

"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time"

"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography"

"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books"

William Cowper, Poet

"When you have fun then you're more interested in learning"

Magnus Carlsen

"I'm still learning how to be good"

Al Pacino, Actor

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again"

John Gray, Author

"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there"

Jaime King, Actress

"I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'"

Cher, Musician

"Well, until this very day, I'm still learning"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write"

William Labov, Writer

"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, Writer

"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment"

John Mayer, Musician

"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age"

Robert Martin, Politician

"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"

Sam Keen, Author

"I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather"

John Hartford, Musician

"The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full"

Tarja Halonen, Statesman

"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"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, Public Servant

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