They Learned Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first… — Stephen Brookfield
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast… — Friedrich Naumann
I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival. — Mark Edward
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes… — John Gierach
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a… — Stuart Appleby
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed… — Bernd Heinrich
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must… — Rabindranath Tagore
Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to… — Sarah Silverman
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… — C.S. Lewis
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning… — Sydney J. Harris
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly… — Peter Farb
We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So… — Jeff Daniels
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as… — Robert Briffault
People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people… — Salma Hayek
I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if… — Donald Miller
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing… — Jonathan Kozol
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all… — Bobby Orr

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