Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.
Joshua Bell
Related At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pi... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a music... SONU NIGAM I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning ... JIM ROHN in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for fi... AMY LEE Learning is Lifelong GRAEME BALL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age... LOUIS ARMSTRONG Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the proces... ADAM RICKITT To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others. I... KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ... TYLER FARR I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. T... SUSAN HAYWARD Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. ERIK HASSLE your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That... C. JOYBELL C. The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages ... JAKE ARRIETA My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early ... GROUCHO MARX Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early ... DOUG HORTON Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift ... RANDY BACHMAN There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for ... ANGELA CARTER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they play... BRONAGH GALLAGHER On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact... CRAIG GROESCHEL The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. GAVIN BRYARS I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m... FLUME At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest oppo... ELIZABETH HOLMES If you don't chance your arm, you'll never break your neck. DOROTHY MAY SNOERWANG-DOYLE 1927-2011 We're beginning the process of putting him in there. But that's a huge learning curve. BRIAN METRESS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now i... ERNEST HEMINGWAY For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in... DANIEL TRUEMAN GS Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Moreover, I was beginning to experience something new - the fear of being alone. I had not been alon... JOHN WYNDHAM At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD ANDERSON At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON The way I look at it, a lot of other people could be there besides me. I'm very happy for the honor. BILL SEIXAS When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER The Web is increasingly becoming a place for new music to be discovered. We're only at the beginning... ALI PARTOVI With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument th... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, wh... ANSELM KIEFER The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ALBERT EINSTEIN Previous releases have lagged behind the Java specifications from a tooling perspective. This is a n... DAN ROBERTS When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very ear... DANIEL SUAREZ It was very important to me, because I learned how to play onstage at an early age. ALEXANDRE BOUZLOV Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA From the very beginning, the fuss that the community raised over the process in the beginning made a... FRAN CALVERASE Be curious, question everything and find out how things work and why SOTONYE ANGA This is the first study we've done with (the program). So it was a learning process, and because of ... BETH WILSON ...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing th... JOHN GEDDES I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go. ORLANDO BLOOM New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus... YANNI My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the ra... MADELEINE PEYROUX Besides, I came from the eighties, a neon, hair-sprayed decade from which very little music made it ... JONATHAN TROPPER When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I must confess, I was born at a very early age. GROUCHO MARX I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time. BRENE BROWN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doin... DEREK JETER Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he... SYLVIA PLATH The power to have a happy ending is by learning to plan for it from the beginning. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a... BARRY MANN I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. CHARLES M. SCHULZ
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JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Even when there is only a 1% chance for success, you have to put in 110% of the work to make that la... JOSHUA LI To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman... JOSHUA FOER What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ... JOSHUA FOER The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something.... JOSHUA FOER We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th... JOSHUA FOER I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I ... ANTHONY JOSHUA I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif... JOSHUA FOER Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it... JOSHUA FOER This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o... JOSHUA REALE I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ... JOSHUA JACKSON Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no... ANTHONY JOSHUA Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi... ANTHONY JOSHUA Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ... JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star. JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll... JOSHUA FOER My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. JOSHUA REYNOLDS If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee... JOSHUA DRATEL Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always... JOSHUA CLARKE We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in w... JOSHUA FOER I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible... JOSHUA WAITZKIN One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in t... JOSHUA WAITZKIN I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ... ISABELLE JOSHUA A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. JOSHUA REYNOLDS I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n... JOSHUA FERRIS I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and... JOSHUA FERRIS People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra... JOSHUA SASSE One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b... JOSHUA KADISON Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s... JOSHUA LANDIS Laughing is a necessity of life. JOSHUA CLARKE