Learning Quotes
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
-- Denis Waitley
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?”
-- John Ensign
“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
-- Gregory Bateson
“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.”
-- Ray Charles
“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”
-- Edward Gibbon
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
-- Lucille Ball
“We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.”
-- Jesse Jackson
“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.”
-- Jhene Aiko