I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son’s school overcome a learning disability.
I didn’t have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It’s more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I’m learning different ways to keep it alive.
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that’s what I want to do.
I’m moving into that eldership age, you know? I’m at the ‘wise woman’ age where it’s not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That’s a high calling and it’s a great responsibility.
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.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
There’s a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhaps we are at peak Valley.
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions.
Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone’s heart, unless you’re Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a girl feel really safe.
I’m learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question ‘What’s going on here?’ can be elicited.
That’s the whole spiritual life. It’s learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
I should be learning another language and working out more, but I’m just always saying, ‘Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.’
A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I’m learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.
The more you’re at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
