Quotes About Learning

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

More drills for poor readers do not work.