Quotes About Learning

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

To read is to voyage through time.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.