#lear

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ↗

— John Lubbock

#every #given #important #important thing #learn

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. ↗

— John Lubbock

#how #knows #last #learn #little

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#country #languages #learn #own #people

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#build #characters #far #far away #how

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. ↗

— Jack Ma

#business #calculate #cards #good #i

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#because #bread #bring #home #i

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#another way #communicate #concept #content #else

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#around #begin #changes #different #every

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#done #forget #getting #i #i think