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" Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning. "

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" Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' "

Alison Gopnik

Children

Work

Society

" When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show. "

" I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV. "

" This life is a process of learning. "

" The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. "

Stephen Jay Gould

Important

Hopes

" The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring. "

" I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist. "

" Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative. "

" And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. "

" I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties. "

" You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted. "

" I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong. "

" In life, if you're not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you're really messing up. That's the marker of a smart, intelligent individual. "

" The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. "

" There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified. "

" I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come. "

" I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world. "

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Learning

Always

World

" By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential. "

" Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. "

" In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it. "

" Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. "

Stephen Jay Gould

Dangerous

Innovation

" Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. "

" Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it. "

" I've 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

Door

Music

" Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development. "

" As long as you live, keep learning how to live. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You

How

Long

" I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests. "

" The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish. "

" At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules... I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor. "

" A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. "