Quotes About Learning

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.

When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.

You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

I used to go to a regular, private high school, but I was only there a week out of the month. I was out of school three weeks out of the month, and so I would have everything faxed to me and e-mailed, and it made it really difficult.

You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have a new cellphone every month or two.

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.

I'm still in school - I'm home-schooled. I do school every day. I finish in, like, four months.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

I made some monumental mistakes with Barcelona.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.