Quotes About Learning

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

What I think about is about the opportunities that Mike Shanahan gave me as an inexperienced coach. I think about watching a Kyle Shanahan work. Just seeing the stuff he was running, his approach to different scenarios, and getting another understanding of what you can do as an offense... all of that helped me grow.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

For me, it's more about the mental game, learning coverages, learning the whole offensive playbook.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

So, I've learned - as a young Democrat, I've learned to think cautiously before offering advice to Nancy Pelosi.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

By creating a feedback culture within your office, you ensure that people continue to learn, grow, and challenge themselves.

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

My job on that first day, like for most green cooks, was official kitchen gofer. Whatever any other cook needed doing, I did it.

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

Oh, I like to take classes every chance that I get. If I'm not working after about four or five months, I'll jump back into a class.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'