Quotes About Learning

I like to think about that story sometimes because it reminds me that, although we like to think of our heroes as perfect, the harsh truth is that they became heroes by making mistakes and learning from them. To me, that makes them even more heroic.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

he insisted, since he'd earned something more useful than a GED—a GE, his "gutter education." He

My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.

Interviewing is fun. You get to learn things about people other than yourself. When you're being interviewed, you're talking about things you've already lived. I've already done that, so what fun is that?

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.

I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ.

I love reading interviews that we've done and seeing how we come across, and thinking, 'Mmm, maybe we shouldn't say that again.'

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

Computers intimidate me.

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.

The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it.

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.

If you're going somewhere international, try to learn a little bit of the language. It goes a long way to be able to introduce yourself, ask for things, and even say hello to someone in a new country!

Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.