Quotes About Learning

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

I got to work with Nia Jax when she just started, and that's just a whole other obstacle: like, I've never been in the ring with someone like her before.

There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

I'm never really just satisfied with where I'm at. I always just want to get better, improve more, learn as much as I can because obviously I have a lot to learn and a lot to get better at so it's all about improvement to me.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Most people, no matter how brilliant, are vessels. Once you come to the end of what is interesting in them, you can touch the side of the jar. There will be nothing afterward but repetition of what you have learned already. It might take a night, a year, or half a lifetime, but once you can reach the side of the vessel, a good part of the larger feeling is gone.

And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. "Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.

Since I believe that I have been a devil for many centuries and have risen in rank and been demoted, it could be asked why, with such a history, I still learned a good deal while in Russia. It is because a newly gained sophistication fades once a venture comes to an end. So we develop many new qualities of mind, but soon lose them.

Maybe it's not what we learn that's crucial, but the questions we're left with. Will we always be a manic-depressive nation of the greatest and most vile achievements? Will we always be a nation of both astronauts and mass-murderers?

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.