“For a successful life, you should have to learn from your past. Think the mistakes you've made in the past, but learn from that instead of regret.”

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in the small of the back, or out back, in the parking lot, or in the television room with the sound turned down and only the pictures flickering over lifting flesh. We yearned for the future How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

“The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons”