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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow
Trust
,
Writing
,
Find
I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith
Songs
,
Ear
It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
Mike Rogers
Long
,
Hard
,
Enough
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Done
,
Thought
,
Learned
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
Chris Daughtry
Music
,
Enough
,
Guitar
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
Jenna Bush
Work
,
Book
,
Thinking
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
Jenna Bush
Home
,
America
,
Inspired
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
Chris Ware
Time
,
Future
,
Learning
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Barzun
Mind
,
Heart
,
Baseball
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
John Stossel
Trust
,
Freedom
,
Bad
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
Stanley Tucci
Acting
,
Sit
,
Watch
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
Justin Cronin
Time
,
Great
,
Hope
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Justin Cronin
Pretty
,
Write
,
Reading
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
Welcome
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
Nick Offerman
Simple
,
Give
,
Less
You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.
Nick Offerman
Time
,
End
,
Working
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Laugh
,
Afraid
,
Means
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Laugh
,
Ourselves
,
Importance
Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
Alan Sugar
Money
,
End
,
Once
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
Alan Sugar
Put
,
Instinct
,
Bottle
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
Geddy Lee
Technology
,
Help
,
Order
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
Gene Tunney
Time
,
Purpose
,
Quality
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
Eric Ripert
Humble
,
Tough
,
Young
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
Eric Ripert
Life
,
Took
,
Salt
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
Carl Levin
Hope
,
Mistakes
,
Past
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Maria Mitchell
Heart
,
Sometimes
,
Head
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
Travel
,
Country
,
Thoughts
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Keith Henson
Children
,
Dangerous
,
Places
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
Michael Gove
Time
,
School
,
Children
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
Andrew Shue
Teacher
,
Before
,
Here
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