Quotes About Learning

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

There's always things we could have done better, and it's easier with hindsight.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip. I guess you just forget it's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn.

I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

I did, like, two drop-in hip-hop dance classes when I was, like, 20, so I am no dance expert but I always love a challenge.

We want to hire people who are self-learners.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

We don't hire students who are just good at academics.

I know what I know and I also know what I don't know, and I make sure I hire the right people who can teach me.

When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - like a kid that got into things before I was ready. I was like the original learning-on-the-job-experience guy. All I knew was, if I hired the best musicians, I got the best arranger, and got the right songs for the right singer, I had did my job correctly.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Dad's influence naturally came into me, rather than trying to emulate every detail. His way of teaching me was to be sparse, and to be explosive when it needed to be.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

I love being educated by historical novels.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

I don't know much about history.