Quotes with learn-on-the-job

Quotes 781 till 800 of 979.

• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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• We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

  R. C. Allen
   
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• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  Carl Levin
  American attorney (1934 - )
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• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35

  B. W. Powe
  Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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• We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

  Gloria Steinem
  American feminist writer (1934 - )
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• We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

  Bruce Vento
   
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• We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

  The Natural p. 152.

  Bernard Malamud
  American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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• We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

  Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  Barbara Deming
  American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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• We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

  Bill Vaughan
  American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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• We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

  Brooke Shields
  American actress and model (1965 - )
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• We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

  Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
  Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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• We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)

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Subjects in these quotes:

• five-and-a-half
• disconnections
• self-defeating
• photographers
• intelligence
• sensibility

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