Quotes About Learning

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Rahman sir keeps pushing himself. He keeps trying new things, whether it is his craft, music or sound... he is always learning. He looks for opportunities to learn, even from children.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it's probably because I had bought it to learn the music so I could go and audition.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

We need to read history from the source.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.