Quotes About Learning

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

The things which hurt, instruct.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.