Quotes with learning

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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Alva Myrdal All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lord George Byron And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alain de Botton Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Belief gets in the way of learning.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Armstrong Williams Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ben Parr Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bob Geldof But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoff But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Ben Bernanke Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Arthur Koestler Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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