Quotes About Learning

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.