Quotes About Learning

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

Dealing with a newborn baby, a new language and new people can't be easy on anyone.

I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Chronicle' in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences - I got to see how the world works.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

I don't think I could have learnt as much about my craft working with stars. Just the sheer freedom you get while working with newcomers is exciting.

When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin.

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when I began writing articles for newspapers back home about life in New York. This interest took over, and I moved from painting to writing.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

The cool thing about this business is taking the knowledge you've gained that people have passed onto you and then you pass it along to the next generation.

One of the biggest motivation for me and my co-founder was to learn and see what is happening in the market, see what next generation of entrepreneurs are doing. This has been the biggest motivation to investing in start-ups.

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.

I would always ask Rob Pelinka what Kobe was doing to be who he was. How to get his game to the next level - how does he get that good?

Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.

You always look at a game and see what you can take out of it to help you go to the next level.

It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

I've always liked to learn how to do things - I'm a hobby person. So I'll learn something at a beginner's level, then usually move on to the next thing.

The minute you watch your voice back with its proper animated character saying the words, that's when you learn exactly what you need to do next time.

Only by learning from experiences are you able to deal with them better the next time.

Every time you learn you can do something, you can go a little bit faster next time.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.