Quotes About Learning

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

When I was a kid in the business, you always had in the back of your head this feeling that if I screw up, I might be fired. So you went out every night and tore your rear end up to make sure that you gave the best performance you can and learning constantly because you never had that idea of 'I'm so great, I'm never going to be fired.'

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.