- Nov 07, 2020
Studying Quotes
On the different paths people take toward mastering something.
Several lines trace early study toward a craft, from music lessons in childhood to years spent in scientific research labs. Read more in our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
- Fellow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
- Coming Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My siblings and I grew up studying from both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible, going to Mass, and then coming home to a yoga kirtan.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
- Watch
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.
- Enamoured
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020