Quotes About Learning

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

Everybody makes mistakes. I'm definitely not perfect.

I'm not perfect, I'm not brilliant at everything, I just try my best and I enjoy crafting. If I have something old or broken and I can use it for something else, I get a real joy out of it.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

I don't know one note from another.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I'm definitely a note taker.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.