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• My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

  Judy Woodruff

  Teaching, School, Years

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• A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

  Paulo Freire

  Perseverance, Reading, Learning

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• ... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Learning, Exercise

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Consciousness

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.

  James Morcan

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, Thinking

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• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, East, Mixtures

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• Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

  Criss Jami

  Psychology, Trying, Language

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

  Melanie Lynskey

  Drama, Acting, Modern

  "‘Hello I Must Be Going’ Star Melanie Lynskey On Her Bout With Depression After ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and Proving Naysayers Wrong" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 05, 2012.

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• I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Mother, Father, Medicine

  Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Way

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• Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

  Anthony Mackie

  Thinking, People, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Fighting, Doe, Professors

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• I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.

  Cory Monteith

  People, Focus, Trying

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I didn't study acting.

  Ray Walston

  Acting

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• The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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• I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

  Connor Jessup

  Philosophy, Issues, Law

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  Karlie Kloss

  Home, School, Independent

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. 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

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

  Andrew Solomon

  Much Love

  "Can Your Child's Identity Shape Yours?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 11, 2013.

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• From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

  Robert James Graves

  Progress, Disease, Students

  Introductory Lectures (1850)

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• Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Christian, Spiritual, Blessed

  James Montgomery Boice (1998). “Christ's Call to Discipleship”, p.52, Kregel Publications

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• The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

  Albert Goldman

  Students, Jew

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