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Learning From Quotes

Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your owns. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.

- Aria Adams

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- Mortimer Adler

Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.
- Felix Alba Juez

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.
- Cassandra Clare

The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.
- Greg Behrendt

And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.
- Nicholas Sparks

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
- James F Cooper

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.
- Guy Davenport

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
- Jared Diamond

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
- Brian Eno

What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?"
Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. "If we didn't form prejudices, we wouldn't be learning from our environment, you dolt. It's an animal instinct. If a porcupine's quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won't be likely to go grabbing it again soon, right?
- Rhi Etzweiler

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
- Michael J Fox

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history - whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
- Barack Obama

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
- Fay Godwin

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
- William Green

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.
- Geri Halliwell

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
- Benjamin Hoff

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
- Chad Hugo

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
- Miguel De Icaza

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
- Mark Kennedy

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
- Doug Larson

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
- Carl Levin

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
- Archibald Mcleish

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.
- Don Mattingly

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.
- Tim Mcgraw

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
- Christopher Meloni

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
- Marguerite Moreau

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.
- Kimberly Novosel

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
- Marvin Olasky

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
- Haley Joel Osment

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
- Adele Parks

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
- Atul Purohit

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
- Michelle Rodriguez

You said I could pet you as long as I liked."
"Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting."
Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf."
"I'm learning from the best.
- Nalini Singh

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.
- Picabo Street

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
- Donna Tartt

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.
- Lea Thompson

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
- Barbara Tuchman

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
- Orson Welles

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
- Eli Wallach

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as 'Christians' will become disciples students, apprentices, practitioners of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
- Dallas Willard

Every life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result.
- Joseph B Wirthlin

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