Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

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

Edward Gibbon

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Geri Halliwell

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Henri Nouwen

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

J. J. Abrams

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

James Hillman

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Joyce Meyer

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Morris West

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Richard Dawkins

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

bell hooks

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

bell hooks

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

bell hooks

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Epicurus

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Epicurus