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“Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.”

Ifs Littles Stills Real Reality Watches Learning Woods Realism Patches

Author:Lauren Hutton

“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.”

People World Wells Stills War Courses Half Known Millions Learning Events Goes On Horror Disease Experience Spread Inevitable Well Known Ruined Futility Inconvenience Pox

Book:Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

Source: Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”

Looks Heart Stills Today Learning Flower Tomorrow Spring Bird Stones Wings Tiny Branches Hiding Fragile Look At Me Jewels Nests Bud Every Second Caterpillars

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.”

Way Stills Spirit Learning Youth Training

Author:Virgil

“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

Littles Stills Funny Education Learning Dangerous Ignorance Beats Dangerous Things Stupidity And Ignorance

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

Way Life Stills Goal Learning Progress Teaching Standing Perseverance Moving Forward One Way Inner Strength Discouraged Progression Standing Still Progress In Life Forward Progress

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

People Thinking Stills Book Reading Learning Pieces Evidence Book Reading Bookstores Books And Reading Reading And Literacy Joy Of Learning

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

Years Stills Enough Given Education Teach Learning Four Notion Four Years Liberating Harvard

Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

Ifs Stills Whole Problem Decision Views Knowledge Learning Clear Involved Flight Get Involved

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”

Thinking Inspirational Stills Book Learning Sleepy

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

Inspirational Years Stills Realizing Known Learning Twenties Breaths Remembered Thirty Another Year Still Hoping

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Stills Ends Waiting Learning Achieve Conditions Distraction

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Stills Success Stars Music Economy Learning Missing Moon Entrepreneur Aspiration Graduation Missing You High Standards Aim High Goals And Objectives Shoot For The Moon

Author:Les Brown

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

“He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Knows May Stills Powerful Learning Intelligent Taoism

Book:Tao teh king

Source: Tao teh king

“A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.”

People World Believe May Stills States United United States Learning Dangerous Absolutes Bubbles Santa Taboo Santa Claus

Author:Peter Thiel

“Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.”

People Stills Hard School Learning Shells Success And Failure Snail

Author:Sandra Dodd

“As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.”

Stills Use Young Science Language Grows Growing Up Learning Evolution Breaths Species Brands Folly Someday Permit Thumbs Measurement Brand New Marveling

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”

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“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.”

“Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.”

Men May Said Stills Science Left Learning Succeed Mathematics Trials Experiments Angling

Book:The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative Notes

Source: The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative Notes

“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.”

“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.”

Wells Long Stills Cases Learning Risk Feet Land Worst Embrace Planning Scenarios Worst Case Scenario

Author:Eli Broad

“There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.”

Life May Stills Matter Hard Care Learning Hard Work Genius No Matter What Who You Are Cherish Worthwhile Righteous I Care Earning Royal Deserving Righteous Living

Author:J. Reuben Clark

“All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.”

Life Writing Trying Years Firsts Has Beens Stills Novel Learning Five Months Five Years Sixty Lacking Seekers

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg