Quotes About Learning

We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay for my mother. I had never taken an exam. Because I was working a lot as a kid, I just hadn't elected to read that much.

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.

Even we can get things wrong sometimes.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.