Quotes About Learning

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

I was corrected on how to stir ("from the bottom up, circling, cleaning the sides as you go"), which I assume everyone else knows but which I never seemed to get right. I was corrected on my whisk ("limp wrist, figure eight, hitting four points of the bowl as if it had corners"), which I hadn't known and which is both efficient and actually rather flash (you can reach exhilarating speeds).

William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

If you can't get a boy, get a book.

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.