Quotes About Learning

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.