Quotes About Learning

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside, so in time they become our dignity.

I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.

I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

I remember the first time I drove mum's car. We just went to a car park near my house, and it actually wasn't too bad. I felt quite confident straight away.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.