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I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.

If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.