Quotes About Learning

An important skill for all SpaceXers is the ability to accept critical feedback. This is key to anyone's growth and becoming better at what they do.

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything.

I couldn't read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, 'This is a skill that I'm developing - how to just get around everything!'

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

It's always fun when you pick up a skill for a particular character.

Once you get older, you can always develop the skill to shoot.

Take your time to really learn and study the fundamentals of your pursuit, so that one day, your fully developed skill set will allow you to grow into a leader.

The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.

Being able to do a role where you learn a new skill is just such a dream. I recently played a potter and got to learn pottery.

When you come into the food industry from the 'Bake Off,' you're very much at the lower end of the food chain, if you'll excuse the pun. In the industry, you have to get the experience, you have to learn the skill. As a home baker - that's how you win the competition - you aren't a professional.

I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.