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Learning

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things. – Adam Savage

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog! – Jane Siberry

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. – Orson Scott Card

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do. – Rory McIlroy

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable. – Judy Holliday

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. – Mick Taylor

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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. – Georgina Chapman

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. – Jared Diamond

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning. – Karlie Kloss

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man. – Kenny Loggins

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. – Helen Mirren

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. – Armstrong Williams

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. – Armstrong Williams

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. – Dee Hock

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. – Robert Sternberg

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. – Steven Pinker

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it. – Theodore Sturgeon