Quotes About Learning

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

The Cross Movement was a group that was a huge encouragement to me. The music was good. The content was good. It really spoke to my soul. It was good to have them around as someone I could learn from and really pattern myself after.

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.