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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Donald Trump - and I don't dislike Donald one single bit - has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
I haven't met a person who takes a statin drug to lower cholesterol that I can't get off a statin once I teach them how to eat.
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.
The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.