Learning - Quotes & Sayings
I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.
Mark PincusWhen you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.
Maya HawkeI got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.
Maya HawkeLearning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
Chet FakerWhen you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.
Michael CarbonaroI just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.
Peter HellerLearning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
Chris CarterSkillshare is a terrific online learning community for creative people. It teaches you new skills through well-made videos with great production values. I've been using Skillshare to teach myself Adobe After Effects. All the videos feature people who are professionals in their field. I love this site.
Mark FrauenfelderI'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.
Mick CornettOnly the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham CahanI'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
Sarah Wayne CalliesIn such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
Koichi TanakaNobody programmes the brain, yet it keeps learning. India shouldn't miss the emerging age of brain-inspired computing.
Kris GopalakrishnanI wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike PetersWe must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted EngstromI think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.
Mark LippertI feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
Shawn MendesI am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
Tyra BanksWhy waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill WattersonPlaying in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.
Jimmy PageI wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.
Jimmy PageSister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.
Gordon B. HinckleyI still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.
Mary BerryLearning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren BennisWe started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
Layne StaleyI have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.
Maxine WatersI spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.
Nikki GiovanniThe first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish.
Michael KordaWe must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
Jesse JacksonWhen I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
Alicia KeysToday when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.
Ginni RomettyI can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
Sandra BullockHe who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph JoubertI like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
P. J. O'RourkeI grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
P. J. O'RourkeThe young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'RourkeI'm always learning. I have to.
NeymarLearning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas FullerNarcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas SzaszLearning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy LearyI miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.
Jane GoodallI've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just continue to do what I'm doing, I'm so happy, so just making town after town, doing my thing, but if I have that opportunity to star in a film or be an extra, I don't care; its all a learning experience for me.
Roman ReignsI didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.
Ricky GervaisI do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
Salman RushdieIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittAcknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.
Travis KalanickI never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
Markus PerssonLearning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
Paul LyndeI realize that I'm not a great dancer. I've given up the hip-shaking. I don't pelvic thrust anymore. Those were the beginning days of T. R. learning how to dance. But I love it, and I've taken a few choreography lessons. But other than that, I kinda just feel it, I guess.
Thomas RhettWhether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
Kristin Armstrong