Quotes About Learning

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

I want to learn more. I want to know more. That's what taking this time is about. I'm curious about so many things, but haven't had occasion to be exposed to them enough to really appreciate them.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Well, we'll know better next time.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.