Quotes About Learning

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.

One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever.

When you're a veteran and speak to a lot of these young players, teach them a lot of things, it's amazing to me the way they're able to translate that to the court.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

I think the person I learnt the most from as a coach was Cruyff because he was always talking about tactics - how to play, where to play and when to play. I think that helps a lot of young players, which is good. He was the most important trainer for me.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

The most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that's their business.

When I spent time in the academy, exchanging ideas with young players, being on the field, the way they were looking at me - I loved it. And I felt really comfortable at it.

My dream is to help young players. I don't want them to make the mistakes I did in the past.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

Young players will suffer at times and have days when they can't cope or adjust.

I like young players when they are still open to learn and behave normally, not driving a Porsche after three matches in the first team.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

With young players you never know how quickly they're going adapt.

Young players will of course always improve upon coming to England. But I came here at 27 and already had a lot of experience from earlier in my career.