Learn A New Language Quotes

#1. When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Luis Figo

#2. As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

Vicente Del Bosque

#3. To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

Ernst Cassirer

#4. He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language

Ann Cleeves

#5. I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

Anousheh Ansari

#6. If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Yao Ming

#7. Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

Andrew Weil

#8. We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

Barbara Sher

#9. I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'

Jackie McLean

#10. Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new slang before it even hit the streets.

David Sedaris

#11. I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Olga Kurylenko

#12. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#13. It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Dennis Ritchie

#16. Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Mary Norris

#17. It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a

Walter Isaacson

#18. The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Dennis Ritchie

#19. It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

Donald Barthelme

#20. you see, the thing is, I just don't know
how to write anything that doesn't
start with a lump in my throat.
And I really don't know how to write anything
that doesn't end with your hands on my neck.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#21. Your journey has shaped you, made you both kind and great.

Rick Riordan

#22. Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

#23. Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

Lena Dunham

#24. God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths.

Todd Friel

#25. Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Gordon Livingston

#26. My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new.

Timothy Leary

#27. By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

#28. There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'

Reba McEntire

#29. Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

Kiran Desai

#30. There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

Bernard Cornwell

#31. Lee, who oddly enough has no problem owning everything Apple ever puts out even though their serfs literally hurl themselves off buildings to escape the pain of putting the fucking things together.

Stefan Mohamed

#32. It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it.

Akshay Bakaya

#33. Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.

Steven Stamkos

#34. Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

Sheri Fink

#35. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Samuel Johnson