Quotes About Learning

Intelligent players are receptive and capable of implementation.

It's part of improving every day, being willing to be receptive of the people who know and see things from the outside that you might not notice in the inside.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it's very easy.

Generally, if you're a baker who's still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It's always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw brownie, and I thought it would work even better if I blended them in a food processor. So I went and bought one specially. When my boyfriend at the time came over to try the results, he took one bite and spat it out - I'd left the plastic on the blades.

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe and then cook it. So no actual teaching involved then.

Wherever I go I'm always looking for recipes and ideas.

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things that will be taught to the students by a film club.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

I've made many career mistakes in the eight years that I've been acting. I did films that I never should have. I was young, inexperienced, and a bit reckless.