Quotes About Learning

I didn't know much about hockey.

The first few years were quite hard for me. It took time for me to understand what exactly is international hockey.

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

Instead of holding grudges, it's better to learn from the bad experiences.

I wasn't afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it's possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you're stronger from that.

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then going to the Championship. We all know what that's like, how tough it is. And that added a different part to my game.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

I am all about NXT because that was where I learned everything. I am a homegrown NXT talent.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.

I have never done any homework even when I was a child!

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

I don't spend enough time with my children, but when I am with them, I like to help them with their homework - even though they know more than me!

I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.