Top 1200 Learning Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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!

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

I am learning something new everyday, be it learning piano or enrolling myself for online courses, reading, writing or doing yoga.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.