Quotes About Learning

In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

I know stuff about 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars,' but 'Star Trek,' I don't know.

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

If we behave like the kitchen is for adults, they become more wary of it and reluctant to go in it because it feels like it's a grown-up space.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.

A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

I remember washing Robbie Keane's boots and asking him a few questions. It's stuff you remember as a kid. You take that on and make sure you're a bit more hungry to go on and do what they've achieved.

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

I don't know how to use a washing machine.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

If it can be known, I want to know it.

Well, listen, I want to talk to Rynald a bit more-" "About astronomy? Maybe he'll show you his telescope,

Researchers say that sketching helps extend the memory. That these throwaway scribblings "reduce the burden we experience" as we're trying to remember something or solve a problem.

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.