Quotes About Learning

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

We must not repeat the same mistakes, or commit the same cruelties that were done in the past.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

If you don't learn from why you're in the position you're in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.

It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

We must protect our history - because we are doomed to repeat it if we don't understand it and work towards a more perfect union.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.