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“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.”

Thinking Want Mean War Problem History Learning Achieve Possibility Likes Labels Crucial Contemplating Something Better Unthinkable Nuclear War

Author:Albert Wohlstetter

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Firsts May Mean Problem Age Past Black Change Learning Century Filled Honestly Obedience Bigotry Inferiors Terrified Submission Preconceptions Unlearn

Author:Gloria Steinem

“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”

Source: Blood Memory

“I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.”

Mean Wish Learning Mines Daughter Progeny

Book:The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch

Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

Ifs Life Trying Years Mind Mean Hard Moving Used Night Fear Easy Business Emotion Silence Careers Power Learning Torment Detachment

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“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.”

Men World Mean Has Beens Company Liberty Learning College Expression Taste Conversation Cells Manners Loser Shut Up Facility Good Company Secluded Taste Of Life

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.”

“It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.”

Men Mean Matter Choices Language Force Understanding Learning Ill Definitions Confusion Explanation Fancy Discourse Associates Vulgar Confusing Controversy Apprehension Things Learned

Author:Francis Bacon

“Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.”

Knows Mean Made Said Play Wanted Guy Sound Views Hell Learning Imagine Intellectual Hot Instruments Jazz Point Of View Technique Imagine That Learning More

Author:Benny Goodman

“Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.”

Knows Mind Mean Strong Opinion Know How Learning Position Abandon Mediocrity Spirited Opinionated Mean Spirited Strong Mind

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

Mean Grows Growing Up Learning Growing Judging Perspective

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”

Men Trying Mean Inspiration Funny Learning Humorous Adversity Endure Witty Silly Endurance Another Man Times Of Adversity Funny Leadership Equator

Author:Mark Twain

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”

World Mean Wisdom Language Learning Communication Limits Philosophical Language Words Language And Communication Languages Communication Power Of Language Language And Power International Language

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.”

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Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”

Mean Doe Learning Transforming Witch Of Portobello

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”

Mean Education Learning College University Quality Education Formal Education Colleges And Universities

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”

Mean Ends Learning Experience Means To An End

Book:Time for the Stars

Source: Time for the Stars

“The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.”

Mean Natural Knowledge Learning Economic Resources Labor Productions Natural Resources Sharing Knowledge Knowledge And Information Information Knowledge Economic Resources

Author:Peter Drucker

“I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.”

Thinking Way May Mean Done Change Creative Learning Virtue Design Particular Realization Creative Thinking

Author:Rudolf Flesch

“Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.”

Should Mean Quality Accepting Learning Keys Standards Performances Customers Core Primaries Premises Schooling Learners Learning Experience

Author:David Hood

“Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.”

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Author:Mamie Van Doren

“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”

“The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.”

People Ifs Knows Men Mean Doe Self Done Known Learning Teacher Taught Educational Brag Self Taught

Book:Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays

Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays

“Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.”

Looks Mean Remember Learning Painting One Day Aging Remember When Getting Old Listening To Music

Author:Susan Sontag

“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”

Mean Motivational Growth Change Known Learning Risk Training Shack Change And Growth Change Growth Unknown Motivational

Book:The Miracle of Motivation

Source: The Miracle of Motivation

“Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.”

“A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.”

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Author:Arthur Eddington

“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

People Knows Life Humans Mean Children Dies Spirituality Born Sleep Existence Knowledge Learning Wake Up Management Awakening Waking Awakened Human Existence Loveliness

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.”

Mean Important Science Mother Learning Importance Mother Nature Saying Thank You

Author:John N. Bahcall

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”

Knows Feels Mean Grows Learning Wise Subjects Judging Instruments Faults Self Knowledge Wiser

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.”

“To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

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Author:e. e. cummings

“Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.”

“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”

Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Mean Doe Ends Light Knowledge Learning Degrees Capacity Management Lenses Transparency Beam

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.”

Life Mean Doe Self Form Desire Suffering Causes Compassion Learning Brother Illusion Equality Breathing Separateness Unawareness

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.”

“We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.”

“We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.”

Thinking Mean Use Choices Teach Learning Particular Habit Shapes Tools Careful Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.”

Mean Used Asks Learning Programming

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

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