Quotes About Learning

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

SM:TV' is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, 'Live And Kicking,' it was amazing.

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

I learned how to cross-country ski.

I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.