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Learning

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. – Sanaa Lathan

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice – my voice. – Mstislav Rostropovich

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. – Cameron Crowe

I enjoy learning technical details. – Ken Follett

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. – Vernon Law

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. – Abraham Cahan

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. – Anna Friel

We must expect to fail… but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. – Ted W. Engstrom

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. – Carl Levin

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. – Marvin Minsky

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music. – Ryan Adams

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. – Hermann Ebbinghaus

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy. – Mac Thornberry

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning. – Dennis Brown

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important. – Jamie Moyer

Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. – Richie Sambora

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. – Philippe Perrin

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. – William Allingham

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. – Thomas Jane

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. – Elliot Richardson