Quotes About Learning

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not.

The brain devotes more cortical real estate to functions that its owner uses more frequently and shrinks the space devoted to activities rarely performed. That's why the brains of violinists devote more space to the region that controls the digits of the fingering hand. In response to the actions and experiences of its owner, a brain forges stronger connections in circuits that underlie one behavior or thought and weakens the connections in others.

But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.

Don't be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

We are perpetually invited to participate more consciously in the dep motion of faith, learning to wonder in a larger frame and awakening to bigger questions and larger dreams" p49

Part of him wanted to throw her down onto the straw and have done with it. For there was no surer way of losing desire for a woman than to take your fill of her. But he sensed that Eleni might be slow to realise that her duty was to please her sheikh in every aspect that he demanded. His mouth curved into a smile. She would soon learn.

You're the same today as you will be in five years except for 2 things : The people you meet n the books you read.

I'm always amazed at how adults assume I can't hear. They talk about me as if I'm invisible, figuring I'm too retarded to understand their conversation. I learn quite a bit this way.

Mom "I can' read and the school might be open in three weaks

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

Deleted the memory—need room for facts," I took the time to type.

If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

The world is full of terrible lessons," he said.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Oh, sometimes I continue to step on my tongue or go where I shouldn't, but all in all, there is so much work to be done.

If only we could know our parents when we are children.

We all make inexcusable and unjustified mistakes. But then again. What are we if we don't make mistakes?