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" I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers. "
Rick Riordan
Will
Think
Learning
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" I'm usually quite good at learning things, but I just don't find the business stuff that interesting, so it makes it harder to get my head around. "
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" Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before. "
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" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "
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" I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students. "
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" I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. "
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" It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. "
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" A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. "
Dorothea Lange
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" When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels. "
Sylvia Plath
Mother
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Green
" Much learning does not teach understanding. "
Heraclitus
Teach
Learning
Much
" I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. "
Dr. Dre
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" I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself. "
Ringo Starr
Yourself
Time
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" In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. "
Sugata Mitra
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" I am still learning. "
Michelangelo
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Still
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" God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another. "
Mike Tyson
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You
Learning
" As long as you live, keep learning how to live. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Long
" People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. "
Joy Page
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Good
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" I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It was a lot of hustle, a learning curve. "
Retta
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" Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. "
Warren Bennis
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Management
Learning
" Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. "
Isaac Watts
Learning
Most
Difficult
" Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. "
Novalis
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Doing
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" 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. "
Diahann Carroll
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" Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.' "
Rian Johnson
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" I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's 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
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" He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. "
Aphra Behn
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He
" I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. "
Jet Li
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Why
" Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right. "
Rick Riordan
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" The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. "
Thomas Merton
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" Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. "
Antonia Bird
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" As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day. "
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Learning
" Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it? "
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Lock
Learning
Arm