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“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.”

Thinking Looks Attitude Students Music Is Regard Something New Perpetual

Author:David Sanborn

“It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.”

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.”

Ifs Needs Mind Attitude Knowledge Students Army Constant Genuine Questioning Zombie Jellyfish

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.”

Should Attitude Students Buddhism Enlightenment Buddhist Enlightened Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.”

Art Attitude Students Treasure Weed

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.”

Ifs Thinking Done Attitude Morning Achieve Students Awakening Bitterness Arena Portents

Author:Nick Offerman

“If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.”

Ifs Attitude Teacher Students Materials Committed Excited Bored Enthusiastic

Author:David McCullough

“I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. ... I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance. I tried to do my part to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game. I tried to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. ... I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career.”

“Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.”

Ifs Knows Believe Today Brain Attitude Achieve Students Optimism Addiction Determine Veins Dope Aptitude

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.”

Littles Stills Film Young Sides Attitude Students Inspire Pure Filmmaker Reprieve

Author:James Franco

“My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.”

Wanted Joy Ability Attitude Wonder Practice Teaching Students Yoga My Attitude Encourage Students

Author:David F. Swensen

“When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.”

World Writing Wanted Young Courses Force Attitude Students Extraordinary Admire Optimistic Emptiness Examination Pessimistic Beckett Young Students

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.”

Way Attitude Teaching Figures Students Approach Patient Traditional

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in awhile because I've been fortunate enough to be working - that, "If this is the work you love, there is work for you. That's how the world works. That's the attitude you have to go in there with. You just have to know that it's coming."”

World Enough Attitude Teach Students

Author:Ann Dowd

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”