Quotes About Learning

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.