Quotes About Learning

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

My brain is open.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.