“All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.”
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“It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.”
“Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.”
“I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.”
“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.”
“That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.”
“If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.”
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
“Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.”
“One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.”
“I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.”
“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.”
“Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.”
“Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'”
“You have to learn and keep learning.”
“The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.”
“Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.”
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”
“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.”
“There is a learning quality in all of our shows.”
“I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.”
“It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.”
“The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.”