Quotes About Learning

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

I have never been very good with technology and when it comes to gadgets I normally lag pretty far behind my friends.

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.