No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.
Doc Hastings

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Frank Stella

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
Thor Heyerdahl

One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Scott Reed

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
John Thorn

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
Artur Rodzinski

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max Muller

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Bob Woodward

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
Friedrich List