I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we’re always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. – George Shearing
Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you. – Georgette Mosbacher
When I left South Africa there were 10 million people – when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways. – Hugh Masekela
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I’m trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don’t feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read. – Harold E. Varmus
I played in different positions as a kid, and it helped me learn different parts of the game, but I found that I was always scoring goals, and that continued as I got older. I’ve always enjoyed scoring, and it seemed to come naturally. Fortunately, that has carried on into my professional career. – Harry Kane
There’s so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who’s married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. – Helen Rowland
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. – Hannes Alfven
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. – Gwyneth Paltrow
It’s always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. – Henry David Thoreau
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus
Beyonce was just always full-out. She’s like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: ‘Just Do It.’ – Heather Morris
We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted. – Henry B. Eyring
When I first began to learn to sing… I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off. – Heber J. Grant
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. – George Stephenson
Whenever I listen to a children’s orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. – Gustavo Dudamel
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell. – Helen Reddy
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain. – Hasso Plattner
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn’t tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated. – Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it. – Gurjeet Singh
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding. – Harry Mathews