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"Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation."
"The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches."
"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
"Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk"
"All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience."
"Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places."
"Habit is the nursery of errors."
"This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."
"The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions."
"Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes"
"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
"Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity."
"Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects."
"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor."
"The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language."
"Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself."
"Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
"To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere."
"To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand."
