Quotes with learn-on-the-job

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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bill Pascrell It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
    C.S. Lewis on joy
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alice Koller It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
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  • David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Louisa May Alcott It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ben Affleck It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Carol Shields It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 314
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Harry S. Truman It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Alistair Cooke It's an acting job - acting natural.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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