Quotes About Learning

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

There are a lot of bands that my parents used to go see that I haven't necessarily heard of, and asking them to dig up stuff like that is a really fun way to discover music.

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.