Quotes About Learning

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

If I'm going to talk about something, I need to be educated about it, and I need to have seen all the perspectives.

I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

I feel stronger and I feel like I've gained so much knowledge and new perspectives because I've met so many different people.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

To be able to get a young player to perform a drill or execute a phase of play - that's satisfying. I get happy and think he's learned, and that's what I enjoy.

When you're a rookie, every day is a learning phase. It's from almost every angle, how to take care of your body, when to rest, stuff like that.