Quotes About Learning

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

I think you can learn from other people's mistakes and other people's strengths, and that is why I have always been watching, with particular attention, other drivers - and not only drivers at the top.

I have made my mistakes my strengths instead of looking at whose fault it is.

The reason I score more and more goals, season after season, is I know my mistakes from the past, I know my strengths, and I work on my strengths, but the little points I want to get better, and it's constant.

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

You can learn from others but you have to be yourself. You can't start out with the idea that you have to copy others, you have to play to your strengths.

Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.