Best learning & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.”

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Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.”

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Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.”

Writing Littles Enough Song Attention Learning Singing Throwing Nuts Monkeys

Author:Dolly Parton

“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Learning Habit Originals Composition

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.”

Writing States Learning Defiance

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.”

Writing Real Matter Learning Subjects Exercise Series Grappling

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.”

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Author:Lauren Tarshis

“Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.”

Ifs Writing Persons Motivational Creativity Learning Assuming Granted Incapable Literacy

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.”

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Author:John Lubbock

“The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I was never taught to read and write was because it was easier for them to lead me. But the second I learned to read and write, I began to lead myself.”

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Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Language is the dress of thought.”

Thinking Writing Matter Form Language Learning Speech Dresses English Language

Author:Samuel Johnson

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Success Effort Learning Dance Ease Literacy Life And Love Diligence Just Dance Music And Dance Due Diligence

Book:The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons

Source: The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons

“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

Source: Thoughts

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

Source: The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

Knows Inspirational Writing May Reading Inspiring Learning Devotion Superiors Learning To Read

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”

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Author:Carol Burnett

“The best writing is rewriting.”

Writing Learning Programming Rewriting

Author:E. B. White

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”

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Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.”

Thinking Writing Process Learning

Author:William Zinsser

“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.”

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Author:John W. Gardner

“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

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Author:John Milton

“There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.”

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Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.”

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Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“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.”

“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.”

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Author:Ketzel Levine

“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”

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Author:Eric S. Raymond

“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”

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Book:C Programming Language

Source: C Programming Language

“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.”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”

“...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.”

“Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.”

“You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.”

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Author:Herbert Simon

“In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.”

“Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its task is only to run the programs.”

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Author:Robert Tarjan

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