Quotes About Learning

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.