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" I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. "

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" We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. "

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" I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! "

" Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. "

" 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. "

" When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice. "

Mstislav Rostropovich

" At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering. "

" In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one. "

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" If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. "

" Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. "

" No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. "

" Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy. "

" Every point in your career is a learning lesson - I learned a lot about how much work is required to grow a user base and create a new product. I also learned that things take time and extreme hard work and passion. "

" I am still learning. "

" I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it. "

" People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship. "

" Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. "

" Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. "

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" It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "

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" Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. "

" Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. "