Quotes About Learning

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

To be very honest, I owe it all to TV, it has made me what I am today. I've learnt the craft from it.

When I married Sammy, my first husband, we were both just so young. But I've had a hugely successful career and I owe a lot of what I learnt in the industry to him, because he was already a top professional, and I was a nobody, really.

Quite simply, I owe everything to Jean-Luc. He taught me everything I know about films, about books, about art, about life.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.

I learned a lot my rookie season - the pace of the game. Playing at the right pace, not 100 miles an hour.

First year, I was in a real high pace running around and I couldn't pace myself.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

It was a long time before I understood what the word 'specific' was. I remember being a kid and thinking it was 'pacific,' and being like, 'Can you be more pacific?' And I believed that for maybe five, six years until someone was like, 'It's 'specific.''