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" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "

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" Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. "

" You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. "

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" Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. "

Henry David Thoreau

" 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. "

" Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning. "

" It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers. "

" Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life. "

" We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences. "

" Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business. "

" We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. "

" I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. "

" Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I'm appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone? "

Kirsten Sweetland

" I did learn eventually - perhaps far too late - to respect the talent I have. For a lot of years out there, I was just bashing on to the next thing and not really thinking about it too much. That's what we do. But I'm learning to appreciate the moment. "

" For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have. "

Sarah Ban Breathnach

" I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. "

" The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. "

" My father is a real idealist, and he's 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'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense. "

" I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky. "

" Learning never exhausts the mind. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I'm always learning and trying new things. When you stop learning, you start dying. "

" Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. "

" After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.' "

" We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. "

" This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. "

" Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning. "

" First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English. "

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" Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing. "

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