“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I must learn.”
— William Goldman, book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018Related quotes
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Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer from Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), The Sentence
Context: Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless... Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline
Herbart (1982c, p. 97), as cited in: Norbert Hilgenheger, "Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841)." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny 3-4 (1999): 5-26.
W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
Deming: The Way We Knew Him http://books.google.com/books?id=VKBz5RW5yFcC&pg=PA125&dq=%22learning+is+not+compulsory%22+%22+survival%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fcqtUtH0BYbioATs44HQAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBjgy#v=onepage&q=%22learning%20is%20not%20compulsory%22%20%22%20survival%22&f=false (1995) <br class="br">This quote is often cited as “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”
Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
