Quotes About Learning

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

I'd like to see kids learning to cook and families sitting down to dinner together.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

In your life, you go through a difficult situation or a very good situation, and you have different moods, but you learn things from your experiences.

Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.

I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.