Quotes About Learning

You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.

My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

As part of being in the industry you do watch what others are doing. I think that's something good to do.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

I'll always learn something new, usually the small things that people overlook, those small nuances that can make you great.

Every day you learn something new.

The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.