I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people to travel and expand my financial capabilities to get ideas and learn about life to create a world apart from basketball.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
If you live long enough you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit never quit never quit.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee learn English and learn about American history and government.
Once the attacks occur as we learned on Sept. 11 it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important and legal means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other across every apparent political or ideological divide.
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
For me French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Father in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin I will be a painter.
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
When Honor's sun declines and Wealth takes wings Then Learning shines the best of precious things.
Learning while at school that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys and that when they became teachers women received only half as much as men for their services the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Learning disabilities cannot be cured but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy successful lives.
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student regardless of age.
I've studied all my musical life but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.