Quotes About Learning

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.

One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.

When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was just going to happen just like that, but I've come to learn that good things take time.

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

I'm not saying the U.S. system is poor at all, because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of great coaches and good things I did there as well.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I've been through good things and bad things that helped me grow up.

For sure, when you don't have a fight, you don't have the pressure. Without the pressure, your mind is more open to learning. I learned a lot of good things.

If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.

People want to have a good time, they want to party with their friends, but they also want to learn something.

I had good time in high school, but I don't think I learned a lot.

Time slows down in libraries in a good way.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

I just don't think we could ever get our heads around the concept of learning to love a stranger. But you already do, the Indians replied. You didn't choose your siblings, and yet you learned to love them. Your parents shoved you in a room and said, Get along. And you did. You found the good in each other. You discovered that the more respect, caring, and altruism you added to the relationship, the stronger it grew.

Ressurection of the little apple tree outside my window, leaf- light of late in the April called her eyes, forget forget— but how How does one go about dying? Who on earth is going to teach me— The world is filled with people who have never died

There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

To chew and digest everything, however—that is the genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a—that hath only the ass learnt, and those like it!

A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.