But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.