Quotes About Learning

Just dedicate yourself to improving, to learning, to trying to get better. That's why I wake up in the morning.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

A good play can teach so much about culture. One can also improvise a lot with the medium and use it to teach kids.

I've never been good at improvising.

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.

I want to continue to improve as the years go by. In fact, my goal is to improve with every session.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

I went to a state school in south-west London. It was a brilliant school for the students that really wanted to learn. But it was not a great school for the students that - in my opinion - didn't want to learn, i.e. me. I really wasn't interested by it.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

I made a few mistakes in the beginning of my career. I didn't have anybody to guide me. I didn't have a secretary. I didn't call up directors, or meet people asking for roles.

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

I think I only made mistakes in the beginning of my career. But after that I have been conscious of the films I want to be in.

In the beginning I wasn't playing as well and had to feel the court and got better and better as I tried to play aggressively and it turned out pretty well.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.