Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
I think there's always a lesson you can learn from any situation.
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.
Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be. . . any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
