Quotes About Learning

I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.

We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

I go to grad school at NYU, and I learn all these things about speech and voice and games. It's like camp for an actor, and I got a chance to immerse myself 12 to 14 hours a day in what I love.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that's how you follow. Speeches don't work.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I think every ounce of pain in just living always ends up being the best thing that happened to me. It's always a growth period. I learn at the speed of pain.

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That's something you hear often. But I think there's more to it than just the speed of the players - there's also the speed with which you have to process information around you.

I like high speed corners, but with the F111, it is taking a little time to build up to that.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

I have made a lot of progress, above all in speed, reflexes, and experience.

You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got to find out all those nuances and how they learn.