Quotes About Learning

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

I never finished the ninth grade.

The first riff that I totally mastered was 'Come As You Are' by Nirvana. I remember sitting there, plunking along, I remember thinking 'How do they even do this?'

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

I've failed my fair share of times no doubt.

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There's no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.

It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

When I came to Mumbai, I had no experience in acting 'til I actually did it.

I learned women never want to hear they have big feet. That's no fun.

We had just gotten the Internet; it was so slow, but I would view the source code, copying and pasting the HTML, trying to figure out how it all worked. I had no idea, but I wanted to teach myself.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.