Quotes About Learning

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

I've been fortunate to work with artists that are at the top of their respective genres. That allowed me to learn from them and their success.

Now I'm 18, I'm about to turn 19 - I'll get a script for, like, a college frat boy type, and if I'd never gone to school, I wouldn't really have anything genuine to draw from.

Generally I always take genuine criticism. It's part of football.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

There is no royal road to geometry.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

My eldest daughter Hiziya always makes fun of my German, and I laugh with her. I did not learn the language in school, but in my daily life, from other people.

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.

Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.

When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I suppose, but you learn on the job really.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.