Quotes About Learning

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

Young girls have an infinite capacity for being attracted to the wrong sort of men.

I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

It's dangerous to write about what you don't know, I said. Ledare got up to go and said, It's dangerous not to.

Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.

He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen