Quotes About Learning

In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.