Quotes About Learning

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.