Top 74 Learning Is Hard Quotes
#1. Learning is hard work, but everything you learn is yours and will make subsequent learning easier.
Marijn Haverbeke
#2. Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.
Janice Galloway
#3. It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
Charles Ives
#4. My dad should have listened to me when I told him that college was not my thing. Instead, he insisted on learning a $200,000 lesson the hard way. That's the thing about college - you pay a ton of money just to realize that everyone is a fucking moron.
Babe Walker
#5. When desperate people seek easy solutions without doing the hard work of fundamental learning and change, resilience is undermined and real growth and learning fade.
Dave Ulrich
#6. I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
Carmine Gallo
#7. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.
Marge Piercy
#8. It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.
Mark Mason
#9. When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
Becky G
#10. I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres
#11. Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More
#12. A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#14. How is it that so often ... I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
Linda Ellerbee
#15. You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.
Ashley Walters
#16. The broader your knowledge, the bolder you can approach your challenges. Nobody goes to open the door without carrying a key ... Knowledge is key; grab it ... handle it with care!
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.
Amanda Peterson
#18. Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
Terry Pratchett
#19. The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate those drives is the secret to success and happiness. This is a smart and beautifully written book, and it will electrify your life. Get this book!
Daniel Amen
#20. There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.
Charles M. Schwab
#21. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#22. Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.
Jill Douglas
#25. The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.
Daniel Smith
#26. Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.
Tim Gallwey
#28. This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.
Paul Polman
#29. There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#30. Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.
Joshua Foer
#31. For me, doing the actual work to fulfill the vision is the easy part. It's the emotional journey that I go through as I am free falling into the unknown that is the hard part. But each time I jump, I'm learning to trust that God will continue to guide me and help me to land safely.
Yvonne Pierre
#32. It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
Tina Weymouth
#34. The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.
Shirley Reeser Mcnally
#35. The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
Henry Jenkins
#36. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
#37. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work - brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research
Lysa TerKeurst
#38. It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?
Paul Lockhart
#41. The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up ... so the next stage is hard work
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#42. The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. ...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.
Tim Hiller
#44. The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.
Larry Rosenberg
#45. Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?
Karen Ann Wirtz
#46. It is a hard thing, as I said, this learning to love. But it is an even harder thing, I think, to learn to be ordinary.
Rachel Joyce
#47. You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
Susan Egan
#48. Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.
Meghan Daum
#49. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#50. What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
James Comey
#51. What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
Andrew Lo
#52. Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.
Auliq Ice
#53. Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part
Warren G. Bennis
#54. I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
Andy Andrews
#55. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#56. Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.
Eddie Redmayne
#57. Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George Lucas
#58. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
Pele
#59. I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.
John Green
#60. When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
David McCullough
#61. Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.
David Williamson Shaffer
#62. Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
Andy Hargreaves
#63. Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
John Jay Chapman
#64. What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure how well well we taught what isn't worth learning." Dosta and Bena Kallick, Habits of Mind
Angela Provitera-McGlynn
#65. If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.
Dee Hock
#66. Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.
Barry Schwartz
#67. It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.
Sofia Vergara
#68. Rebel! Take responsibility for your life. Drop all that nonsense which has been put inside you. Drop all that you have been taught and start learning again from ABC. It is a hard, arduous journey.
Osho
#69. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#70. Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
Sam Abell
#71. It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
Daniel Radcliffe
#72. I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Thomas Harris
#73. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#74. Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too.
Terry Pratchett
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