Quotes About Learning

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

I learn from Kevin Spacey and Tom Hardy, watching these guys work, the things they all do differently. Tom never stops exploring and discovering, take after take. His mind never turns off.

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.

I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.

I'm homeschooled with a private tutor.

As a father and as a public school tutor, I've seen how a child's earliest experiences form the foundation for lifelong learning and health. And the science is overwhelming showing how much it matters.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.

I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''

People are always telling me how much they loved 'Empire Records.' We had so much fun making that movie. I was so young - 16 or 17. I still had a tutor!

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.