Quotes About Learning

I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.

The 'Larousse' is my favorite book. It's my bible; it's a good reference for me.

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn't consider him an influence because I'd already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

I love historical references.

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well.