Quotes About Learning

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

How do I work? I grope.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.