Quotes About Learning

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.

When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with 'Knuffle Bunny' by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It's just a classic, with dauntingly few words.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.

Mike Tyson and I came up together in the streets, and being around people like him, I learned what goes on behind the scenes.

I dedicate some of my power to Mike Tyson. I watched a lot of film on Mike Tyson. Then we started taking notes on Muhammad Ali. We took notes on Sugar Ray Leonard. What was that fighter known for? Why was he so difficult to beat in his time, in his era and, you know, why was he at the top?

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.

The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.

'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.

Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the music business. Plus, setting up my own record company taught me a lot.

Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the problem is that most UK secondary schools don't stretch good mathematicians and therefore fail to turn them into excellent mathematicians.

There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.

I managed to do some classes in Ukraine but people there didn't really speak English. They spoke Russian so that's what I learned there.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.