Quotes About Learning

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

When I was playing with ADO Den Hag in the youth teams at that time I was quite strong because I was used to older people.

To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The whole point of 'The New Mutants' was that the oldest of them, Sam, and maybe Dani Moonstar... they're 15. Rahne is 13. They are kids still. The whole point of being kids is half, if not two thirds of the time, they're making mistakes.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

If someone told me a couple years ago, 'You're going to be deep into show jumping with horses,' I would be like, I didn't even know that's an Olympic sport.

When I participated in Rio Olympics in 2016, I failed to grab a medal. But it was a learning experience.

Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.

I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

I think that's the biggest thing, just helping me grow on and off the court. It's always what I've been about, and I think that's special.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

For me, college was a big learning experience on and off the court, just growing as a person, becoming more mature.

Me going to college, I think, was a great idea. I went only for two years, but I was able to mature both on and off the court.

If I do the right things on and off the field that's how a player is going to learn.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

I've grown a lot in my time in San Antonio, both on and off the court, and probably off the court most importantly.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.