Quotes About Learning

There is no better institute than Hindu College.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

These guitar institutes and things like that, I think they take away people's identity and they're actually encouraging a lot of people to play who are not naturally good players anyway, but they're telling people that anyone can learn to play.

My institute days were the most enriching days of my life.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

When I went to Bollywood and used to give actors instructions, many of them would tell me that I am acting out exactly like Mohanlal. I learnt from one of the best actors in the country and I am proud of that.

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.