What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.
- Chris Abani
It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.
- Mark Twain
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
- Mark Twain
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
- Chinua Achebe
They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Brooks Adams
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence of talking without meaning is never effaced.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.
- Darynda Jones
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that's been burned.
- Christina Aguilera
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead
- Warren Adler
I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them.
"It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable."
Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?"
Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.
- Alexandra Adornetto
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
- Freddy Adu
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
- Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
- Aeschylus
To learn is to be young, however old.
- Aeschylus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
- Publilius Syrus
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.
- James Agee
An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.
- Ann Aguirre
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
- Cecelia Ahern
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
- James Joyce
Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always something to learn, always something that is important to understand.
- Veronica Roth
There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
- Veronica Roth
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
- Veronica Roth
There is always something to learn, always something important to understand.
- Veronica Roth
Learning how to think in the midst of fear,' he (Four) says, 'is a lesson that everyone, even your Stiff family, needs to learn. That's what we're trying to teach you. If you can't learn it, you'll need to get the hell out of here, because we won't want you.
- Veronica Roth
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
- Veronica Roth
There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
- Mitch Albom
Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.
- Paulo Coelho
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
- Paulo Coelho
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
- Paulo Coelho
Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
- Paulo Coelho
There is only one way to learn. It's through action.
- Paulo Coelho
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
- Paulo Coelho
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
- Paulo Coelho
I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.
- Jodi Picoult
I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
- Jodi Picoult
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
- Madeleine Albright
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
- Louisa May Alcott
You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?
- Kate Alcott
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
- Jean Alesi
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
- Lloyd Alexander
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
- Lloyd Alexander
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
- Hannes Alfven
It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts."
"So, ninety-five percent of the time."
She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?"
"Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks."
"Ducks?
- Cassandra Clare
It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.
- Cassandra Clare
But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if your strong enough," said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek...
- Cassandra Clare
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to learn how to speak Italian.
For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more
beautiful than roses :)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
- Ernest Hemingway
I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
- Ernest Hemingway
That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had any time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
- Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- Ernest Hemingway
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen Sr
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
- James Allen
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
- James Allen
Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia.
- Jeff Wheeler
It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
- Marcus Allen
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
- Ted Allen
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
- Andy Warhol
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.
- Andy Warhol
Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.
- Janet Evanovich
I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.
- Janet Evanovich
Never give anyone the satisfaction of denying you something you need, and for that, what you have to do is to learn to need nothing. Starve the wanting part of you.
Dorothy Allison,
"Mama"
Trash
- Dorothy Allison
This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.
- Shiro Amano
...to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
- Alexandre Dumas
I flip ahead in the texbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.
- M T Anderson
And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung.... Not simply words... and grammar... but melody. It was hard... thus... to learn English... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.
- M T Anderson
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
- Gillian Anderson
I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
- Gillian Anderson
It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind of poetry I was seeking in my prose, word to be laid against word in just a certain way, a kind of word color, a march of words and sentences, the color to be squeezed out of simple words, simple sentence construction.
- Sherwood Anderson
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
- Marc Andreessen
I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.
- Jodie Andrefski
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
- Larry Mcmurtry
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice... You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
- Larry Mcmurtry
If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilkand feisty gentlemen.
- Larry Mcmurtry
you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.
- Virginia C Andrews
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
- Maya Angelou
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
- Oprah Winfrey
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
- Oprah Winfrey
One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Hermann Hesse
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
- Hermann Hesse
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.
- Hermann Hesse
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
- Keren Ann
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
- Francesca Annis
Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human.
"I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately.
"But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked."
"What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded.
"Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.
- Piers Anthony
They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
- Katherine Applegate
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Hannah Arendt
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
- Plato
In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?
- Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Plato
I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.
- Lisa Kleypas
Yes, but you need to learn your maths."
"I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
- Lisa Kleypas
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
- Joan Armatrading
You teach what you want to learn.
- Terri Ann Armstrong
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
- Gemma Arterton
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
- Richie Ashburn
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
Something to learn about me," I told him, "I'm a Snooze Button Girl.
- Kristen Ashley
I pray our Heavenly Father will help us to learn the truth that meaningful love is a continuing process that will bring joy and happiness to all participating parties. May we take the time to show our families, our friends, the stranger, our prophet, and our God that our declarations of love are backed up by performance by our daily lives, that we know for love to be acceptable to God and man it must be continuing and originate from within.
- Marvin J Ashton
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn
- Margaret Atwood
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
- Margaret Atwood
We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
- Melina Marchetta
You're going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'
'The mule and I have an agreement.'
'The mule and you have similar traits.
- Melina Marchetta
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
- Marcus Aurelius
We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world.
- Steve Maraboli
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
- Steve Maraboli
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
- Steve Maraboli
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
- Frankie Avalon
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that's the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn't the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.
- Richard Bach
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
- Richard Bach
It's okay is a cosmic truth...It's okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn't bother to pay the fare.
- Richard Bach
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
- Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Richard Bach
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
- Richard Bach
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
- Richard Bach
There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.
- Kevin Bacon
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
- David Copperfield
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book and that he did not learn it better.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez
I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
- Donovan Bailey
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
- Bob Balaban
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.
- James Baldwin
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
- John Burroughs
Life is too short to learn German
- Oscar Wilde
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
- Eric Bana
Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.
- Maya Banks
Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u?
- Al Saadiq Banks
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
- Russell Banks
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
- Tyra Banks
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw?
- Banksy
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
- Roy Barnes
Intelligence does not mean infallibility, nor does it mean immobility. Intelligence means the ability to learn.
- Kelly Barnhill
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat)
Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sebastos Eudorus Parthenopaeus. He is really going to hate us when he has to learn to spell all that. Acheron
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian)
Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda)
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian)
There's no time like the present. (Amanda)
Time is of the essence. (Kyrian)
God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda)
You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the well being of the tribe. "Gossip was a way to learn taboos, pass on warnings, share the burden fo being human among many so the onus of bearing it alone would fall on no one person. " Molly said. From an Anna Pigeon Novel
- Nevada Barr
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
- Lewis Carroll
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
- Dave Barry
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
- Cecilia Bartoli
I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
- Christopher Barzak
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
- Abu Bakar Bashir
Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
- Kenneth H Blanchard
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
- Frederic Bastiat
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
- Mario Batali
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
- Gregory Bateson
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.
- Joan Bauer
Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11
- L Frank Baum
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
- Christian Bauman
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles M Schulz
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
- Stephanie Beacham
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end..
- Ishmael Beah
We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again.
- Melody Beattie
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87
- Melody Beattie
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
- Melody Beattie
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses..
- Albert Camus
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
- Lemony Snicket
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
- Berenice Bejo
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Desmond Tutu
I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why folks walk in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em an' learn. Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn't understan'. All them things is good things.
- John Steinbeck
...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.
- Frans G Bengtsson
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
- Alan Bennett
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
- Alan Bennett
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
- Arnold Bennett
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
- Henri Bergson
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
- Haruki Murakami
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
- Haruki Murakami
- Chris Abani
It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.
- Mark Twain
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
- Mark Twain
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
- Chinua Achebe
They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Brooks Adams
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence of talking without meaning is never effaced.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.
- Darynda Jones
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that's been burned.
- Christina Aguilera
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead
- Warren Adler
I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them.
"It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable."
Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?"
Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.
- Alexandra Adornetto
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
- Freddy Adu
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
- Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
- Aeschylus
To learn is to be young, however old.
- Aeschylus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
- Publilius Syrus
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.
- James Agee
An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.
- Ann Aguirre
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
- Cecelia Ahern
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
- James Joyce
Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always something to learn, always something that is important to understand.
- Veronica Roth
There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
- Veronica Roth
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
- Veronica Roth
There is always something to learn, always something important to understand.
- Veronica Roth
Learning how to think in the midst of fear,' he (Four) says, 'is a lesson that everyone, even your Stiff family, needs to learn. That's what we're trying to teach you. If you can't learn it, you'll need to get the hell out of here, because we won't want you.
- Veronica Roth
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
- Veronica Roth
There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
- Mitch Albom
Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.
- Paulo Coelho
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
- Paulo Coelho
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
- Paulo Coelho
Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
- Paulo Coelho
There is only one way to learn. It's through action.
- Paulo Coelho
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
- Paulo Coelho
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
- Paulo Coelho
I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.
- Jodi Picoult
I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
- Jodi Picoult
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
- Madeleine Albright
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
- Louisa May Alcott
You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?
- Kate Alcott
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
- Jean Alesi
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
- Lloyd Alexander
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
- Lloyd Alexander
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
- Hannes Alfven
It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts."
"So, ninety-five percent of the time."
She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?"
"Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks."
"Ducks?
- Cassandra Clare
It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.
- Cassandra Clare
But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if your strong enough," said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek...
- Cassandra Clare
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to learn how to speak Italian.
For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more
beautiful than roses :)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
- Ernest Hemingway
I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
- Ernest Hemingway
That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had any time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
- Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- Ernest Hemingway
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen Sr
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
- James Allen
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
- James Allen
Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia.
- Jeff Wheeler
It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
- Marcus Allen
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
- Ted Allen
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
- Andy Warhol
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.
- Andy Warhol
Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.
- Janet Evanovich
I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.
- Janet Evanovich
Never give anyone the satisfaction of denying you something you need, and for that, what you have to do is to learn to need nothing. Starve the wanting part of you.
Dorothy Allison,
"Mama"
Trash
- Dorothy Allison
This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.
- Shiro Amano
...to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
- Alexandre Dumas
I flip ahead in the texbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.
- M T Anderson
And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung.... Not simply words... and grammar... but melody. It was hard... thus... to learn English... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.
- M T Anderson
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
- Gillian Anderson
I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
- Gillian Anderson
It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind of poetry I was seeking in my prose, word to be laid against word in just a certain way, a kind of word color, a march of words and sentences, the color to be squeezed out of simple words, simple sentence construction.
- Sherwood Anderson
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
- Marc Andreessen
I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.
- Jodie Andrefski
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
- Larry Mcmurtry
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice... You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
- Larry Mcmurtry
If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilkand feisty gentlemen.
- Larry Mcmurtry
you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.
- Virginia C Andrews
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
- Maya Angelou
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
- Oprah Winfrey
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
- Oprah Winfrey
One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Hermann Hesse
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
- Hermann Hesse
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.
- Hermann Hesse
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
- Keren Ann
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
- Francesca Annis
Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human.
"I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately.
"But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked."
"What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded.
"Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.
- Piers Anthony
They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
- Katherine Applegate
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Hannah Arendt
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
- Plato
In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?
- Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Plato
I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.
- Lisa Kleypas
Yes, but you need to learn your maths."
"I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
- Lisa Kleypas
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
- Joan Armatrading
You teach what you want to learn.
- Terri Ann Armstrong
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
- Gemma Arterton
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
- Richie Ashburn
You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.
- Jay Asher
Something to learn about me," I told him, "I'm a Snooze Button Girl.
- Kristen Ashley
I pray our Heavenly Father will help us to learn the truth that meaningful love is a continuing process that will bring joy and happiness to all participating parties. May we take the time to show our families, our friends, the stranger, our prophet, and our God that our declarations of love are backed up by performance by our daily lives, that we know for love to be acceptable to God and man it must be continuing and originate from within.
- Marvin J Ashton
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn
- Margaret Atwood
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
- Margaret Atwood
We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
- Melina Marchetta
You're going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'
'The mule and I have an agreement.'
'The mule and you have similar traits.
- Melina Marchetta
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
- Marcus Aurelius
We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world.
- Steve Maraboli
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
- Steve Maraboli
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
- Steve Maraboli
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
- Frankie Avalon
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that's the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn't the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.
- Richard Bach
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
- Richard Bach
It's okay is a cosmic truth...It's okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn't bother to pay the fare.
- Richard Bach
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
- Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Richard Bach
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
- Richard Bach
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
- Richard Bach
There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.
- Kevin Bacon
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
- David Copperfield
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book and that he did not learn it better.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez
I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
- Donovan Bailey
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
- Bob Balaban
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.
- James Baldwin
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
- John Burroughs
Life is too short to learn German
- Oscar Wilde
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
- Eric Bana
Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.
- Maya Banks
Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u?
- Al Saadiq Banks
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
- Russell Banks
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
- Tyra Banks
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw?
- Banksy
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
- Roy Barnes
Intelligence does not mean infallibility, nor does it mean immobility. Intelligence means the ability to learn.
- Kelly Barnhill
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat)
Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sebastos Eudorus Parthenopaeus. He is really going to hate us when he has to learn to spell all that. Acheron
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian)
Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda)
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian)
There's no time like the present. (Amanda)
Time is of the essence. (Kyrian)
God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda)
You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the well being of the tribe. "Gossip was a way to learn taboos, pass on warnings, share the burden fo being human among many so the onus of bearing it alone would fall on no one person. " Molly said. From an Anna Pigeon Novel
- Nevada Barr
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
- Lewis Carroll
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
- Dave Barry
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
- Cecilia Bartoli
I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
- Christopher Barzak
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
- Abu Bakar Bashir
Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
- Kenneth H Blanchard
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
- Frederic Bastiat
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
- Mario Batali
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
- Gregory Bateson
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.
- Joan Bauer
Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11
- L Frank Baum
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
- Christian Bauman
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles M Schulz
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
- Stephanie Beacham
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end..
- Ishmael Beah
We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again.
- Melody Beattie
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87
- Melody Beattie
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
- Melody Beattie
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses..
- Albert Camus
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
- Lemony Snicket
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
- Berenice Bejo
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Desmond Tutu
I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why folks walk in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em an' learn. Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn't understan'. All them things is good things.
- John Steinbeck
...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.
- Frans G Bengtsson
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
- Alan Bennett
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
- Alan Bennett
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
- Arnold Bennett
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
- Henri Bergson
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
- Haruki Murakami
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
- Haruki Murakami
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