Learn quotes

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.” Steve Martin

“What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.” Barack Obama

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.” Henry Miller

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.” Henry Miller

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann

“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.” James Madison

“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?” James Madison

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” John Stuart Mill

“When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.” Marilyn Manson

“We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.” Michelle Obama

“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.” Michelle Obama

“We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.” Michelle Obama

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” Colin Powell

“When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.” Colin Powell

“Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.” Colin Powell

“Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.” Mitt Romney

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan

“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.” Ayn Rand

“However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.” Babe Ruth

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.” Tony Robbins

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.” Tony Robbins

“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.” Tony Robbins

“Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.” Tony Robbins

“I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.” Henry Rollins

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” Bill Gates