Quotes About Learning

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.