Quotes About Learning

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I had already been making music for my whole high school life, and '10 Day,' which took me a whole year to finish, was about working with a lot of different producers and learning all of the aspects about being a rapper, from shows to recording to studio etiquette to marketing.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Learn licks and songs from records.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes.

When you start off with your first company, you are learning as part of the process and you make mistakes. The important thing is to recover quickly and learn from the experience.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

There's no question that I've made mistakes along the way when you look at recruiting in terms of evaluations of players or character in an instance or two.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

I know, for myself, I have a very distinct style, and I know what I like, and I know what I don't like. But it has been a process of learning how to cater to the different events that happen with Hollywood and how you might want to dress for red carpet and what things photograph well.

I personally believe in test cricket you get a lot more opportunities to redeem yourself.

In the beginning of my Rutgers journey, I had to learn fast that I would have to continue to redefine success. I had to understand that things would not just come to me.