By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. — Proverbs
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. — Phil Collins
Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn! — Steve Jobs
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life. — Charles Willson Peale
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. — St. Francis De Sales
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. — Saint Francis de Sales
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. — Ambrose Bierce
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. — Isocrates
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. — Herbert Simon
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else. — Jack Welch
Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent. — John Dee
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. — William Shakespeare
The rain, it raineth every day. — William Shakespeare
Allow not nature more than nature needs. — William Shakespeare
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There is no losing in jiu jitsu. You either win or you learn.
Shakespeare King Lear Quotes
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear. — Sayings
When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this. — Frank Langella
King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last years and King Lear is such an accurate portrayal of a father figure suffering from dementia - the play was almost intolerable for me. — Gregory Doran
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless. — Gordon Smith
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. — Simon Callow
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss
King Lear Quotes
Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond. — Sam Mendes
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written. — Thomas Jefferson
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. — David Wenham
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. — Rainn Wilson
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God. — George Steiner
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. — W. H. Auden
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. — Virginia Wade
The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note. — Edward Lear
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. — William Shakespeare
And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man! — William Shakespeare
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease. — Linda Sunshine
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. — William Shakespeare
And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button. — William Shakespeare
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man. — Robert Green Ingersoll
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. — Derek Jacobi
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho. — Dave Grohl
I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way. — Arjun Rampal
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. — William Shakespeare
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. — William Butler Yeats
We are not the first
Who with best meaning have incurred the worst — William Shakespeare
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. — William Shakespeare
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. — William Shakespeare
The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare
What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town? — Christopher Moore
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. — William Shakespeare
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. — Peter O'Toole
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. — William Shakespeare
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. — William Shakespeare
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