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" With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. "

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" The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. "

Yo-Yo Ma

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Content

Learning

" I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world. "

" A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. "

" I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn. "

Renee Elise Goldsberry

Night

Work

" Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors. "

" We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. "

" In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook. "

" The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. "

" If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. "

Drew Barrymore

Back

Going

" There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. "

" It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day. "

" I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up. "

" I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. "

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

" We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. "

" I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. "

John Irving

What If

Think

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

" When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures. "

" As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless! "

" Big failures hold better lessons than any success - as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from. "

" Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. "

" We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. "

" We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. "

Lloyd Alexander

Looking

Finding

" 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. "

" Learning is its own exceeding great reward. "

" You can't learn everything you need to know legally. "

" As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning. "

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

" I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. "

" Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. "

John Irving

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