Life Learning Quotes - Page 4

• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  Walker Percy

  Education, School, Stills

  "Don't Overdo Graduation Speech". www.altoonamirror.com. May 24, 2015.

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• A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

  Saul Gorn

  Men, Years, Skins

  "The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems". "Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965". Book edited by Lawrence B. Heilprin, Barbara E. Markuson, Frederick L. Goodman, 1965.

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Reason, Embrace

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

  Claus Moser, Baron Moser

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Children, Good Life

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• I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

  Lou Thesz

  Mean, Wrestling, Gimmicks

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• 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.

  Rick Rubin

  Progress, Better Person, Revelations

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Learning, Want

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• A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.

  Tara Stiles

  Successful, Long, Tree

  Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.22, Harmony

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• I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teaching, Years, Skills

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

  Thomas Huxley

  Book, Knowledge, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, Important, Tools

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• Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "What's it going to be, Kat?" It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth; in that moment Kat didn't have a clue what to say. I carn't do this with out you sounded trite. What they were doing was to big for a simple please. Hale I-" You know what? Never mind. Either way, I'm in Kat." He seemed utterly resloved as he slipped on his sunglasses. "I'm all in

  Ally Carter

  Team, Lying, Simple

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• I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Challenges, Whole Life, Hard

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• Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Eye, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  Ted Allen

  Humility, People, Preparation

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• It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

  Amanda Peterson

  Years, Hard Life, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Positive, Teaching

  "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

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