Learning Quotes

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Learning presence is a stress buster.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.