Quotes About Learning

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I still have trouble imagining the coach of a group of eight- or nine-year-old players actually wasting time teaching systems. The greatest system any coach can pass along is allowing kids to create and refine skills. Systems need to come into play only much later, if ever.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Kindle - who needs it, jag har 3000, 35 000 böcker i huvudet eller i flyttkartongerna på vinden.

C?rÅ£ile m-au înv??at pl?cerea ÅŸi bucuria distrugerii.

It is by and from books that I've learned that the heavens are not humane, neither the heavens nor any man with a head on his shoulders—it's not that men don't wish to be humane, it just goes against common sense.

Lecz uÅ›miecham siÄ™, bo w teczce niosÄ™ ksi??ki, po których siÄ™ spodziewam, ?e wieczorem dowiem siÄ™ z nich o samym sobie czegoÅ›, czego jeszcze nie wiem.

Udaj?, ?e wiem, ?e nic nie wiem.

soy culto a pesar de mí mismo y ya no sé qué ideas son mías, surgidas propiamente de mí, y cuáles he adquirido leyendo...

De esta manera, a pesar de mi mismo, me he vuelto sabio...

smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Bez przerwy pi? nie mo?na. Dlatego si? dokszta?cam".

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Learning to swim meant learning how to relinquish control, to thrive in a space of uncertainty.

to be ignorant of "either letters or swimming," Plato declared, was to lack a proper education.

As I learn more about the Baghdad swimmers, I start noticing how the water is a privileged space and what an invitation to that space can mean for all kinds of tribes.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything. Like how not to react when there is a crisis. Like how to stay still and maybe even unearth levity from the seriousness of a situation. Edge is the silence inside every noise. He's the light inside the paint.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.

BOOKS! I DON'T KNOW IF I EVER TOLD YOU THIS, BUT BOOKS ARE THE GREATEST GIFT ONE CAN GIVE ANOTHER

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience