Opportunities To Learn Quotes - Page 3

• I've been blessed by learning certain principles and values that transformed my life and enabled me to accomplish more than I really had the ability to do or ever dream possible. And so I decided that I wanted to give as many other people as possible the opportunity to learn these ideas and transform their lives as I had.

  Charles Koch

  Dream, Blessed, Opportunity

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

  Matthew Underwood

  Opportunity, Journey, Giving

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

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• If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Teaching, Opportunity

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• I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Opportunity, Get Better

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kort, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Opportunity, Yellow, Bird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Believe, Opportunity, Trying

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• Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

  Mike Lowry

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

  Tim Matheson

  Art, Opportunity, Cooking

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I really enjoyed working with Daniel [Craig], because he's a brilliant actor at the top of his game. That gave me an opportunity to learn from the best, which is what you're always looking for as a performer in order to grow and get better at your craft. It was also great because he was so nice and incredibly supportive, because it really was an intimidating experience for me. He sort of held my hand and said, "We're in this together and we'll get through it together." And he did look after me.

  Naomie Harris

  Nice, Opportunity, Hands

  "Naomie Harris is the new James Bond Girl in Skyfall". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Opportunity, Debt, Crisis

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me since my first command. I work to understand the people, their views and needs, and how tasks are being carried out.That interaction might cause me to modify my guidance or the way I delegate. It also affords me an opportunity to learn what goals people have and how as their boss I can facilitate their future in ways that not only help them, but also help the ship or the organization.

  Michael Mullen

  Opportunity, Organization, Views

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• I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.

  Hilary Mason

  Believe, Technology, Opportunity

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• When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Blessed, Exercise, Opportunity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

  Busy Philipps

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Believe, Opportunity

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

  Britney Spears

  Inspirational, Dance, Kids

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• There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems, it's just one and it's education. You educate all the girls and boys. You give them the opportunity to learn.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Boys, Opportunity

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• I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Thanksgiving, Mean, Opportunity

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• If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength. . . . Effort is standing up to the storm. Pain comes from enduring the worst the storm can throw at us. But then so does strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Children, Pain, Adversity

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• Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

  Tom Clancy

  Opportunity, Life Is, Persons

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• Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

  Bill Parcells

  Hate, Opportunity, Steps

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• You will be Presented with Lessons: You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Hate, School, Opportunity

  Cherie Carter Scott (2004). “If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.

  Wyomia Tyus

  Opportunity, Careers, Track

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Priorities

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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