Quotes About Learning

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Tournaments are won by aggressively going after smaller pots with a range of starting hands. The trick is learning how to do that without becoming reckless.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I'm skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I'm really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

May I have a few friends and many books - both true.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me].

Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.

What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?

I don't know how – it is a question of process

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

People who desire to acquire success need to have knowledge

The reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

A search for knowledge is a search for the truth.

Knowledge is truth.

To uncover new knowledge, and to find the truth, one must dare venture into the unknown.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.