Quotes About Learning

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

I believe no chef becomes what he becomes without having many people influence him.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That's normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I've played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

When you're young, influences count.

I think on some level, you always carry your first and biggest influences with you, whether it's the Allman Brothers or Col. Bruce Hampton, people that you learned a huge amount of what you do from. So it's always there.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.