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I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation. -- Bill Watterson
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation. -- Rafe Esquith
I love nature and enjoy learning new skills. -- Leona Lewis
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. -- Tony Buzan
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. -- Sugata Mitra
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. -- Doug Larson
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. -- John Lasseter
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. -- Debbie Stabenow
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. -- Alison Gopnik
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at. -- Tim Ferriss
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. -- Willard Wigan
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. -- Daniel Tammet
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. -- John Milius
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. -- Sloane Crosley
When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it. -- Anton du Beke
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. -- Nate Silver
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills! -- Zooey Deschanel
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. -- Gregory Bateson
Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning. -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
The key to learning great skills is to pay attention. -- Mike Desert
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning. -- John Dewey
I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills. -- Gretchen Carlson
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills -- Albert Bandura
Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles! -- Annie Wersching
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing. -- Bill Watterson
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. -- Lilian Katz
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. -- Richard Leakey
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at. -- Tim Ferriss
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. -- Michelle Obama
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . . -- Whitney M. Young
I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills. -- Temple Grandin
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time. -- Peter Drucker
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own. -- Lee Iacocca
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. -- Marilyn Jager Adams
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. -- Thomas W. Moore
BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills. -- Moses
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all. -- Cat Deeley
Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed -- Thomas More
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence. -- Denis Waitley

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