Quotes About Study

The path to artistic insight in one direction often involves deep study of another—the intuition makes uncanny connections that lead to a crystallization of fragmented notions.

Since childhood I had treasured the sublime study of chess, the swim through ever-deepening layers of complexity. I could spend hours at a chessboard and stand up from the experience on fire with insight about chess, basketball, the ocean, psychology, love, art. The game was exhilarating and also spiritually calming. It centered me. Chess was my friend.

that the bulk of his scholarship was out of my grasp); as

Thousands of hours they've been up studying and highlighting Bible passages while I've been sleeping, or watching baseball, or abusing myself carnally on a recliner.

Pru knew these verses, too. He who learns as a child, what is that like? It's like ink written on new paper. And he who learns as an old person, what is that like? It's like ink written on erased paper. She'd studied Pirkei Avot with her father, a chapter a week on Shabbat afternoons. The rabbi stepped back into the sanctuary.

The study of Marxism outside of revolutionary struggle can form library rats, but not revolutionaries. Participation in the revolutionary struggle without the study of Marxism will inevitably be filled with hazards, be less confident, and turn out to be half-blind.

Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or energy passing through a conductor, it was a part of the natural world, to be studied, understood, and, when possible, managed.

Another well-known study, led by Nancy Andreasen, used structured interviews and matched control groups to examine thirty writers at the prestigious University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Eighty percent of the writers met formal criteria for a major mood disorder, compared with thirty percent of controls matched for age, education, and sex.

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

Preparation for the test was Herculean, requiring months of intense study. Even though she'd been an impeccably skilled, compassionate doctor, beloved by her patients for four decades, she was possessed by a sense of inadequacy. A thousand people could tell her how incredible she was, but if one person said something derogatory, she'd believe him. It was so much easier for her to be kind to others than to herself—a paradox shared by many of us.

who would ask for help from nobody but would be quick to offer it. He found himself outside the study door and hesitated, then made up his mind. He tapped and walked in. The men were standing by the window, deep in conversation, the women were sitting by the fireplace, equally engrossed. 'Thought I'd just tell you

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.

ethnographic

los hombres son hombres, no los creas diferentes porque unos han estudiado y otros no, o porque viven en otros países con otras costumbres. La sangre pide sangre, ya sea para dar vida o para la venganza y la muerte, pero la llamada de la sangre todos la sentimos aquí.

If you wish to learn something, then you must.

The one before her was some sort of study, with a wall of books, all leather-bound and smelling like knowledge.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

But what attracts me to the study of confidence is that it is something women can address themselves, individually and immediately.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.