Quotes About Learning

When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a learning curve there, and I did have to learn some of that.

I am just a beginner. The two films so far are baby steps. If I develop an attitude, I'll be finished even before I've started. Besides, if I started misbehaving, my folks would give me a tight slap.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.

Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.

When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten. That a child can laugh without reason, that he can jump around for no reason, that he can become an exuberant burst of aliveness – that's life.

If terrible things have happened to you, you ought to have grown wise. If the worst possible events have befallen you, you should be the wisest of the lot.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. —Henry Ford

Educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University cites studies that show that people only remember 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, but about 80% of what they see and do.

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly

It is wishful thinking to expect change without factoring in a few failures along the way.

If I had to do it all over again, I would have encouraged employees to make more mistakes. —Thomas Watson, IBM

Every failure is a learning experience and it should be seen as part of the process rather than the enemy.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

studying itself does not lead to wisdom. Rather, by self-reflecting, I needed to internalize what I had learned, try it out in my daily life, and then reflect on the outcome. That is the process that leads