Quotes About Learning

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I read more history books than anything else.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Whenever you're not getting hits, it turns to being about the result, and you've got to make sure it's always about the process.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

You just learn every year, being around the game long enough, facing hitters more and more.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

Hitting is not an exact science.

Wiffle ball was my first experience hitting left-handed.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Joshua Lederberg

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

I think it's very important for the Chinese people, the Chinese government to build lots of hockey rinks, bring some coaches here and learn the game, and I think they will do well.

I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.