Quotes About Learning

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

My first retailer was Saks Fifth Avenue. I didn't even know how to ship a box to a retailer. Like, how do you pack it? How do you send it to make sure it gets on the floor? You figure it out as you go along.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.

I have to learn sometimes 25 pages at a time. The takes can last 20 minutes - we do big, long takes. You always hope that you get a couple of days in between so you can learn the next one because you can't keep everything in your head at the one time.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

When kids ask questions there is a painful honesty at times and they will ask things that throw me.

It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.

My 20s were pretty painful.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for me in school because I couldn't sit down long enough. I couldn't concentrate. So I didn't go to classes very much.