Quotes About Learning

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I'm still learning and I'm still growing as a photographer.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

I never really learned photography.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

I never read about photography.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

I was a contestant on 'The Apprentice: Martha Stewart' and more than her telling me I learned from her that authenticity is key. She had a huge issue with a contestant using the phrase 'fake it 'til you make it' and fired her that same episode. She taught me that you can't fake being a master of your craft.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.