Quotes About Learning

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there's nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.