Quotes About Learning

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

What inspires me is the relationships and situations I find myself in as I grow and learn.

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

I started my journey in music at the age of six.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.