Quotes About Learning

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

While shooting for 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna,' I just had to watch Dev sahab and I would give my best.

There is no harm in admitting one's mistakes.

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

You can learn from your mistakes but you can't harp on the bad things, the negative things that have happened. But you definitely have to learn from them and get better and improve and progress as a football player.

I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.

I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

I don't have an MBA from Harvard Business School. I learnt everything on the job.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

I just hated school. I don't like to learn. Don't teach me anything!