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" What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. " - Philip Pullman

" The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. " - Christopher Morley

" When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn’t be great. So I asked around, ‘What do you think of this?’ That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter. " - Bonnie Hammer

" If you listen, you’ll learn. If you talk over each other, you don’t accomplish anything. " - Mickey Rooney

" I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can. " - Dylan O'Brien

" New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point. " - John Barnes

" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. " - Michel de Montaigne

" I think anybody can cook if they take the time. " - Coolio

" Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you’re working all the time, so you’re learning rather than sitting around and waitressing. " - Lydia Leonard

" Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again. " - Barry Ritholtz