Quotes with hardest-learned

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  • Anthony Robbins Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Margaret Mead Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • E. M. Forster Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Brendon Burchard People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
    Source: Chorninky Notes
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abba Eban Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • C. K. Williams Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Josh Billings Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Source: Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • John Holt Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Billy West Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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