542 quotes found
“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, de...”
“Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.”
“I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't...”
“I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.”
“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.”
“I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.”
“The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.”
“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”
“How many things can I do without?”
“Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.”
“Life lessons cannot be applied topically.”
“Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?”
“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
“...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.”
“Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.”
“The more you know about something the less you fear about it.”
“Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)”
“It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people inv...”
“Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner”
