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Quotes About Study

The Lifted Crew, I think that they're a great band that plays great soul music. They may have studied a lot of soul, but really, their heart and soul is in hip-hop.
~ Big Daddy Kane
I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
I'd like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.
~ Kris Vallotton
what of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
~ Napoleon Hill
Strangely, the story of this unusual experience was told to the author in the old mill, on the very spot where the uncle took his whipping. Strangely, too, I had devoted nearly a quarter of a century to the study of the power which enabled an ignorant, illiterate colored child to conquer an intelligent man.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you are keenly interested in studying the strange power which gives potency to persistence, read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In a textbook case of naive empiricism, the author also looked for traits these millionaires had in common and figured out that they shared a taste for risk taking. Clearly risk taking is necessary for large success—but it is also necessary for failure. Had the author done the same study on bankrupt citizens he would certainly have found a predilection for risk taking.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I mentioned earlier that to understand successes and analyze what caused them, we need to study the traits present in failures.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what physicists call "percolation theory," in which the properties of the randomness of the terrain are studied, rather than those of a single element of the terrain.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
options pushed me to study the math of probability.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the effects on the environment are not foreseeable—nobody studied the interactions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The need to focus on the payoff from your actions instead of studying the structure of the world (or understanding the "True" and the "False") has been largely missed in intellectual history.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Develops intuitions from practice, goes from observations to books
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thus, psychology, as it pertains to man, is properly conceived and defined as the science that studies the attributes and characteristics which man possesses by virtue of his rational faculty.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting the laboratory, and, for recreation's sake, watching the processes by which weeds were converted into drugs of potency.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The bookworm of great libraries.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,---call it which you will,--- is a book...
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
What did she mean, study like you're going to die? She said she spit up blood, but is that for real? Is studying really worth dying for? I couldn't accept it, and I guess that was one of my weak points.
~ Natsuo Kirino
When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.
~ Neal Shusterman
L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.
~ Charles Baudelaire