Quotes About Learning

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.