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" I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. "

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Eugene H. Peterson

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

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

" I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. "

" Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses. "

" When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different. "

" Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. "

" I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends. "

" Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. "

Edsger Dijkstra

" Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. "

" I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. "

" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. "

" The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" I think you're working and learning until you die. "

" I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. "

" 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. "

" My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five. "

" I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done. "

" Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. "

" To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. "

" There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' "

" The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. "

James Weldon Johnson

" 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. "

" I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' "

" As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important. "

" He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" 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. "