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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.
- Aristotle Onassis
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility
in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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