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learn to play at least one musical instrument and then play it only in private, never allow one's self even a passing thought of death, never contradict anyone or seek to prove anything to anyone unless one gets paid for it in cold, hard coin, live the moment to the utmost of its possibilities, treat one's enemies with polite inconsideration, avoid persons who are chronically in need, and be satisfied with life always but never with one's self.
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In life we learn to play our roles and we `` freeze '' into patterns which become so habitual that we are not really aware of what we do.
The amount of time required to learn to play or master a game varies greatly from game to game.
Maria Elena reported Buddy was keen to learn finger-style flamenco guitar, and would often visit her aunt's home to play the piano there.
Golf croquet is easier to learn and play, but requires strategic skills and accurate play.
Once signed, they learn to play better football and some advance to the senior or professional teams.
One of the advantages of tab is that it can be easier for performers without formal training to learn, because the notation directly indicates where to play the note.
It even offered, via an additional AY-3-8910 sound chip inside the ECS module and an optional 49-key Music Synthesizer keyboard, the possibility of turning the Intellivision into a multi-voice synthesizer which could be used to play or learn music.
So that ’ s why for some classical musicians, it ’ s very difficult for them to try to learn how to play jazz.
She has stated preferring to learn an opponent's style so she can play intentionally against him rather than playing " objective " chess.
" The most experienced jazz guitarists learn to play with different " timefeels " such as playing " ahead of the beat " or " behind the beat ," to create or release tension.
Pilar Padilla, a Mexican actress and protagonist of the film, had to learn English in a crash course to play the part.
For all instruments, the best way to move the fingers and arms to achieve a desired effect is to learn to play with the least tension in your hands and body.
She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to " learn your lines or get out of my play ".
Unschooling is a range of educational philosophies and practices centered on allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences, including child directed play, game play, household responsibilities, work experience, and social interaction, rather than through a more traditional school curriculum.
It is the center of the drum kit, the most prominent drum in most marching and stage bands, and the drum that students of both orchestral and kit drumming learn to play first.
Unable to find a bass player in New York City, Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums.
He therefore fashioned smaller bats for them, to suit their sizes, and they were taught to play straight and " learn defence, with the left shoulder well forward ", before attempting to hit.
In Willow's dream, she moves from an intimate moment painting a love poem by Sappho on Tara's bare back, to attending the first day of drama class to learn that she is to be in a play performed immediately for which she does not know the lines or understand.
A professional tennis and handball player, Sobek sought a fast-paced sport that was easy to learn and play.
Even if a monkey could learn to write a play and describe the characters ' behavior, it could not reveal the characters ' minds and so build an ironic tragedy.
Hokkaido Karuta has become a popular version of karuta all over Japan because it allows the player ( s ) to play and learn without the presence of a reader.
Since its inception in 1976, Omaha Children's Museum has been a place where children can challenge themselves, discover how the world works and learn through play.
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He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
He had come to learn that a reputation for peculiarity allowed mere field officers a certain leeway at Court ; ;
A northern ambassador, willing to keep his mouth shut and his ears open, could learn a lot that would stand him in good stead at the Curia.
the student will certainly want to explore more deeply into the fascinating study of immature individuals, struggling to meet their developmental needs, and at the same time trying to learn the rules of the game in the ever-expanding number of groups in which they hold membership.
If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.
But it didn't take Judy Garland, showman, long to realize that this sort of thing was par for the course at Newport and that you have to learn to live with it.
However, there is an interesting contrast between the belief that exposure of signs to a hearing infant will aid them in language development, whereas a deaf infant at times must show the inability to learn an oral language before they are taught sign language.
Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.
But perhaps a detective or philosopher / scientist / engineer might seek to learn about something, at progressively deeper levels of detail, to solve a crime or a puzzle.
' I cannot find, or at this moment learn, beyond vague conjecture where the French Fleet are gone to.
But telegraph operators were already using typewriters with QWERTY keyboards to " copy " received messages, and at the time it made more sense to build a typewriter that could generate the codes automatically, rather than making them learn to use a new input device.
He was shocked to learn at his trial that he was charged with murder.
It is an approach to learning that gives students flexibility and choice over what, when, at what pace, where, and how they learn.
Although his daughter, Elizabeth, was born at the beginning of July, for unexplained reasons Oxford did not learn of her birth until late September.
Additionally, they learn that even when firing at a valid target, unintended targets may still be hit, for three reasons:
The digging of test pits and trenching ( particularly for locating faults and slide planes ) may also be used to learn about soil conditions at depth.
:* GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit: An exhibit at various museums and science centers in which participants in the maze learn about geocaching.
George realised the value of education and paid to study at night school to learn reading, writing and arithmetic — he was illiterate till the age of 18.
To learn more about the processors, he worked at Intel as a consultant on his days off.
We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).
Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil-language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed “ Malayan curriculum .” Most importantly, the entry exam to the University of Malaya ( which moved from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in 1963 ) would be conducted in Malay, even though most teaching at the university was in English until the 1970s.
In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
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