Quotes About Learning

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.