Quotes About Learning

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

I am genuinely interested in China, I wanted to see it visually.

In my constituency I've got local authority schools, free schools, academies, I've got a grammar school, I've got independent schools that aren't far away - and the interesting thing is, whether I am walking into a local authority school or a free school or an academy, the name above the door matters less than what goes on inside the building.

English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

I don't think there will ever come a time that I can't learn from my parents, but there's something wonderful about getting to the age where you can role-reverse and share exciting and interesting things that you have learnt, too - even better when it's a shared passion.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.

I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally.

I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don't care if people are laughing at me. I always look at the Internet for the correct pronunciation and play word games.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

Each step of the way I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken. It's a line that is always on the edge of being crossed, and once you cross it, what's next?

Sunrise, it was revealed, could learn any song after hearing it once. In fact, she could just sort of imagine how a song would go. It was shocking each time she was right; it was shocking in the way that certain musicians just plunk out the melodies, chords, and all, and can't even read music, never "learned," just know.

As Cotton later explained, "Zeal must be according to knowledge, knowledge is no knowledge without zeal, and zeal is but a wildfire without knowledge.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"