Quotes About Learning

My thought process when I'm on the court is always thinking about getting better, and thinking about how I'm playing. Thinking about it as a process, as the big picture and what I need to work on, instead of being close-minded and thinking, 'I'm so nervous and have to win this match, if I don't, it'll be the worst.'

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I grew up in Denmark and was fortunate enough to have access to good schools and thoughtful teachers.

Our best thoughts come from others.

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

The parenting books didn't work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out. So every time I had a thought, I would put down my conclusions and thoughts.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for me when I was in high school. Both left a lasting impression on me, because they chronicle the lives of some of the most creative scientists of the 21st century.

those who truly know, knows those who don't, will learn if they ask

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Most importantly Earth School is an amazing learning academy for the soul.

I guess you don't study Latin and Greek if you don't like putting in the hours.

All really good picture books are meant to be read five-hundred times.

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

autodidacts.