Quotes About Learning

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

So, wrestling, being strong, having good matches? I learned that in New Japan. But as a TV character? TNA was good.

I went to Japan for three months and I learned a lot about strong style over there.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

I want to discover Japanese culture and Japanese football.

I am definitely not sitting down with Jason Whitlock because I don't think he is willing to learn. He is fat and 50. There ain't no changing the mind of a fat, 50-year-old person.

Some of my conversations with Jay, I'm not really saying much, just listening. It's really just learning. I'm trying to have Jay Z's money.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.