Quotes About Learning

Sometimes I can be a little ignorant.

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.

We've really learned to ignore past failures.

We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.