Quotes About Learning

Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you're not prepared.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not a right, any more than they have the right to shield their children from healthcare or medicine.

I've been watching a whole heap of video footage of different players on different teams and how different players get the football. But the best way I learn is getting out there and playing.

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.

You're more apt to criticize an NBA player than you are a college players. Some of these guys are freshmen. They are learning the game. The other guys have taken it to the biggest stage there is. That's the NBA. So they are going to get more heat if they don't perform.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

My father's schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.