L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.”
“Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today, I was adamant not to hear anyone else play that instrument. I want to approach them as a child and on the basis of each instrument. I wanted my voice to come through, not someone else's.”
“Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.”
“Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.”
“Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.”
“Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and adaptability when communicating with others, whether it be with co-workers, clients or the board of directors. Learning to apply mindfulness on a daily basis will significantly encourage a positive, creative and enthusiastic attitude at all levels in companies large and small.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“Learning to prioritize is the secret to annihilating clutter.”
Source: Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets
“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry”
“Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.”
“Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.”
“Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.”
“Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.”
“Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.”
“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.”
“Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.”
“Learning to read the imagery as well as the words highlights the importance of the reader in being an active part of producing the text and making each picture book their own adventure in interpretation."”
“Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.”
“Learning to savor the moment keeps us from living in constant worry and fear and tension over things that haven't happened yet and may never come to pass. Practicing yoga helps us to undo these bad mental habits and stress triggers that we often unknowingly pick up along the way.”
Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free
“Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.”
“Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.”
“Learning to see and manage work from a value stream perspective is a powerful way to instill new ways of thinking into the DNA of your organization and achieve higher levels of performance.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Learning to see into the future will change the way you live your life. No matter what you are going through right now, it will not affect you.”
“Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.”
Source: Matter Into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit
“Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.”
Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition
“Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.”
“Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.”
“Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.”
Source: Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
“Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.”
Source: The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech
“Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.”
“Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.”
“Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.”
“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”
“Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.”
Source: Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope
“Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”
“Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.”
“learning to trust me…
then seeing what my heart has to
say about everything else.”
“Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.”
“Learning to work with rather than against our emotional blocks can help our creativity, intuition, and our hearts to expand.”
“Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.”
“Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.”
“Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.”
“Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.”
“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Learning translates into performance only if you monitor it outside the classroom.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.”