Quotes with hardest-learned

Quotes 301 till 320 of 366.

  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Lao-Tzu The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Alice Munro The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bono The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners
    Source: quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • James Russell Lowell The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
    Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845)
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Alexander Pope The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Frederick Book The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Benjamin Graham The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carlos Ghosn There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Les Brown There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Anne Northup There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
    Source: The High School Teacher, Vol. XI (1935) p. 60
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Brenda Ueland This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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