Learning - Quotes & Sayings

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

Tim Ferriss

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Mark Zuckerberg

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

Lynn Davies

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

Dan Shechtman

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

John Ridley

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Alison Gopnik

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Kent McCord

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

William Green

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

Jonathan Tisch

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald MacLeish

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Joshua Waitzkin

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Kate del Castillo

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

Tom Chatfield

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

Adam Beach

Do your best and keep learning - that's what I believe in.

Suriya

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Paulo Coelho

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sugata Mitra

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Tom Cruise

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

Daymond John

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers

I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. Would I do it again? No. But that's part of the learning process and getting from point A to point B.

Christina Aguilera

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tony Buzan

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

Kapil Dev

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Tom Colicchio

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Steve Jobs

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Rick Rubin

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Michael Gove

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

Mark Cuban

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

Alex Trebek

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

Princess Beatrice of York

I'm always interested in learning something new.

Katherine Johnson

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Kid Rock

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

D'Angelo

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

Alexander De Croo

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato