Kato Lomb Quotes

#1. Knowledge - like a nail - is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

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#2. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

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#3. [S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy.

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#4. Rich dad, poor zombie.

Jesse Petersen

#5. When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.

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#6. Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

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#7. I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.

E. Lockhart

#8. Yes, I'm adopted.
My folks were not blessed
With me in the usual way.
But they picked me,
They chose me
From all the rest,
Which is lots more than most kids can say.

Shel Silverstein

#9. I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

Shepard Fairey

#10. My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Kato Lomb

#11. I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question marks, and exclamation points; they can be thumbed and dog-eared, plucked to their essential core, and annotated so that they become a mirror of yourself.

Kato Lomb

#12. ... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features - eternal human nature.

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#13. The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows of the past linked to them that it is an obligation for all of us to guard their present and future.

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#14. Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

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#15. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

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#16. A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.

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#17. May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.

John Jackson Miller

#18. [R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.

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#19. Treat people the way you want to be treated. When they don't treat you back that way, react. React to everything.

Sonny Barger

#20. I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

Imogen Cunningham

#21. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.

Bill Kirchen

#22. In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will "suck away the air" from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students' bad pronunciation more than the teacher's perfected speech.

Kato Lomb

#23. Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

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#24. There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

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#25. Hmm. I really hope I don't sound condescending - that means talking down to someone - but, you know, you really shouldn't believe everything you think.

Suzanne Wright

#26. I push through to where it is the thickest, where it is the loudest, where you can feel the music in your teeth, where it overpowers your heartbeat, where it takes over. I don't want my own heartbeat tonight. I want it to pulse and pump outside of me.

Kiersten White

#27. I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

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#28. To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.

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#29. [B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning tool.

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#30. Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

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#31. Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Miley Cyrus

#32. The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner's stand. It would rank first in plasticity.

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#33. [T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain - daily and weekly - concentration.

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#34. Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

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#35. One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

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#36. Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

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#37. He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

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