Learning Quotes

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

You keep learning all the time.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.