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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

It is mainly about working hard and proving to people you are serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they are the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it is not true.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

This life is a process of learning.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

My father is a real idealist, and he is all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding No. But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I do be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say What does that mean?'

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it is definitely a journey I am glad to be taking. Number one, it is a great learning experience. When my mother told me it is a 24/7 job, she was not kidding.

It is a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and Does not support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, Well, yeah, but you start to think, Why not, though? What makes one more valuable than another?

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

No Child Left Behind requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.;Dianne Feinstein;learning 40797;Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.;Natalie Portman;learning 40798;Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.;Emma Thompson;learning 40799;A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.;George Herbert;learning 40800;Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.;Frederick William Faber;learning 40801;I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I have definitely learned a lot.;Miley Cyrus;learning 40802;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.;Henry Louis Gates;learning 40803;It is always good to explore the stuff you do not agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I did not know.;Laura Linney;learning 40804;I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I am learning how to deal with it. That is why I have chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.;Jonathan Davis;learning 40805;Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.;Novalis;learning 40806;Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.;Samuel Richardson;learning 40807;There is no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.;Morgan Freeman;learning 40808;Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.;Thomas Szasz;learning 40809;The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.;Marilyn vos Savant;learning 40810;It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.;Giada De Laurentiis;learning 40811;I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.;Carl Rogers;learning 40812;The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.;Shirley MacLaine;learning 40813;In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.;Mark Zuckerberg;learning 40814;That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.;Haile Gebrselassie;learning 40815;In university they do not tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.;Doris Lessing;learning 40816;There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they do not.;Doris Lessing;learning 40817;What society Does not realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they do not now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.;Doris Lessing;learning 40818;I may be learning guitar, but I will never be able to sing.;David Duchovny;learning 40819;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.;David Duchovny;learning 40820;Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.;Arthur Koestler;learning 40821;Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.;Herman Cain;learning 40822;I am going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I am a lousy delegator, but I am learning.;Alton Brown;learning 40823;It is like learning a language you can not speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.;Fred Frith;learning 40824;I am interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.;Jessica Simpson;learning 40825;Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.;Phil Crosby;learning 40826;Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It is just learning not to take the first no. And if you can not go straight ahead, you go around the corner.;Cher;learning 40827;An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.;Thomas a Kempis;learning 40828;We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.;Jesse Jackson;learning 40829;It is a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.;Jeff Foxworthy;learning 40830;We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others differences.;Layne Staley;learning 40831;We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.;David Brainerd;learning 40832;Everybody's a work in progress. I am a work in progress. I mean, I have never arrived... I am still learning all the time.;Renee Fleming;learning 40833;Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he is in high school. When he starts playing jazz it is like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.;B. B. King;learning 40834;When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.;Jackie Chan;learning 40835;The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?;Max de Pree;learning 40836;And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.;Heston Blumenthal;learning 40837;I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.;Christina Ricci;learning 40838;I am less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can not help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.;Jonathan Safran Foer;learning 40839;In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.;Neil Gaiman;learning 40840;Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.;Edward Gibbon;learning 40841;I love learning new techniques.;David Bailey;learning 40842;I am getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I am learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.;John Mayer;learning 40843;I have figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.;John Mayer;learning 40844;The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it is to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it is well-received and lives in somebody else.;Yo-Yo Ma;learning 40845;Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.;Margaret Lee Runbeck;learning 40846;If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.;E. W. Howe;learning 40847;I am learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge and 'Loo'.;Cher;learning 40848;The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.;Mortimer Adler;learning 40849;The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.;Kwame Nkrumah;learning 40850;I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I am learning how to do basic wiring.;Sandra Bullock;learning 40851;No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.;Arthur Erickson;learning 40852;So I have seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.;Richard Branson;learning 40853;It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it is about a man who Does not appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.;Adam Sandler;learning 40854;In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.;Jean Baudrillard;learning 40855;Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.;Leon Trotsky;learning 40856;Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.;William Glasser;learning 40857;Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.;Annette Funicello;learning 40858;The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.;John McEnroe;learning 40859;Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.;W. Edwards Deming;learning 40860;I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.;Giada De Laurentiis;learning 40861;The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.;Carl T. Rowan;learning 40862;Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.;Michael Gove;learning 40863;Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.;Miranda Lambert;learning 40864;Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.;Ray Charles;learning 40865;The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.;Buffalo Bill;learning 40866;That is what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it is great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.;Joe Nichols;learning 40867;I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.;Daniel Defoe;learning 40868;We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I am trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.;Emeril Lagasse;learning 40869;I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.;Jet Li;learning 40870;It is really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.;Bo Derek;learning 40871;I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.;Julius Erving;learning 40872;I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.;Joseph Gordon-Levitt;learning 40873;Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.;Edward Young;learning 40874;Producing is just a big learning experience.;Ashley Tisdale;learning 40875;I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.;Laura Linney;learning 40876;I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.;Laura Linney;learning 40877;Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.;John Jay Chapman;learning 40878;There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.;Jeff Bezos;learning 40879;Since we can not know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.;John Holt;learning 40880;My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together, because we did not know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.;Novak Djokovic;learning 40881;I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.;Channing Tatum;learning 40882;My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I do not see that changing. When I am not skating, I love to surf. I am open to the new experiences and opportunities.;Ryan Sheckler;learning 40883;Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.;Oliver Goldsmith;learning 40884;All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.;Benjamin Spock;learning 40885;I am still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I do not know.;Lena Horne;learning 40886;There is no way I can justify my salary level, but I am learning to live with it.;Drew Carey;learning 40887;I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.;Antonio Banderas;learning 40888;I have finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.;Ben Affleck;learning 40889;No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That is why they do not last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.;Jonathan Kozol;learning 40890;The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it is Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.;Howard Gardner;learning 40891;If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That is why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.;Giada De Laurentiis;learning 40892;I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.;Sophia Bush;learning 40893;We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.;Nate Silver;learning 40894;By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.;Nate Silver;learning 40895;I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.;Lindsay Lohan;learning 40896;The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.;Maya Lin;learning 40897;You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.;Maya Lin;learning 40898;For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It is alive.;Miuccia Prada;learning 40899;My learning process is by eye alone it is not at all scientific.;Miuccia Prada;learning 40900;Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.;Liz Phair;learning 40901;One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.;Ashley Montagu;learning 40902;Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.;Felix Adler;learning 40903;A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.;Daisaku Ikeda;learning 40904;I am still at the beginning of my career. It is all a little new, and I am still learning as I go.;Orlando Bloom;learning 40905;My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It is just like anything else, practice makes perfect.;James Lafferty;learning 40906;I have terrible handwriting. I now say it is a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.;Andrew Greeley;learning 40907;I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It is been a learning experience for me too.;Christopher Meloni;learning 40908;I am always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.;Christopher Meloni;learning 40909;Books have led some to learning and others to madness.;Petrarch;learning 40910;There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.;Anthony Trollope;learning 40911;Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.;Jeffrey Kluger;learning 40912;The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.;Jeffrey Kluger;learning 40913;We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.;Jeffrey Kluger;learning 40914;Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.;Edward Young;learning 40915;But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!;Anna Neagle;learning 40916;I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.;Shimon Peres;learning 40917;Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.;Jean Henri Fabre;learning 40918;The spotlight will always be on me, but it is something I am learning to live with as the years go by.;David Beckham;learning 40919;I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.;Sloane Crosley;learning 40920;I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.;Ted Allen;learning 40921;I am growing and learning. There is so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I am gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I am not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.;Jordin Sparks;learning 40922;I feel the older I get, the more I am learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it is all about finding yourself.;Ringo Starr;learning 40923;I grow old learning something new every day.;Solon;learning 40924;I am learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.;Halle Berry;learning 40925;All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.;Joseph Lancaster;learning 40926;I have had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.;Joseph P. Kennedy;learning 40927;I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?;Beth Ditto;learning 40928;I can not do the same movies all my life. I am conscious of that. But it is a trade-off. 'Dear John allowed me to do movies I have wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I am still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it is a steady climb. You do not jump into a Soderbergh film.;Channing Tatum;learning 40929;To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.;Jeremy Taylor;learning 40930;I have always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.;Joaquin Phoenix;learning 40931;I am pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It is still not back to normal, and I do not know if it ever will be, but I am learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.;Shawn Johnson;learning 40932;You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.;Elisabeth Rohm;learning 40933;In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.;Jane Pauley;learning 40934;I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.;Leona Lewis;learning 40935;People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave, and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.