Quotes About Learning

The past is the past. We're not going to spend energy on the past, because it's going to detract from us going forward.

There are a lot of games out there these days that you either know how to play it or don't, or if you spend enough time pounding away at it, you're going to beat it eventually.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.

I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.

As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.