Quotes About Learning

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.