“In the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn’t even speak.” — Mary Ruefle, “Short Lecture on Shakespeare,” Madness, Rack, and Honey
Tag: learning
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“We find it easier to learn from other people’s failures than from our own.” — Dan Ariely, “On Confident Crushes and Feedback Failures,” Ask Ariely (2022-04-23)
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“You can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.” — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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“A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“A lot of my life has been learning what I’m not.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“As long as I’m learning something I figure I’m OK — it’s a decent day.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
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“I never learn anything from listening to myself.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
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“Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.” — Russell Baker, “Back to the Dump,” The New York Times Magazine (1983-02-27)
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“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.” — Henry S. Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
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“Most of what is important cannot be taught except by experience.” — Ken Kesey, The Art of Fiction No. 136
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