Quotes About Learning

I think what I have learned is you can't avoid losing. You're going to strike out a million times. The whole point is not to dodge losing - it's to learn how to lose well.

In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

Every experience brings something. From one point, it is good because you know what to expect from this kind of opponent - what is her speed, her striking force.

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.'

Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

I think that some of the best runs that I've been on as a coach have come as the result of a tough loss or a string of tough losses that galvanized us and made us figure out who we were. Then we were able to take off. You have to use them as learning experiences and move forward.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

The main thing is to have strings to your bow. You get your badges, you see where life is, and then you see what things come your way, if any.

Maybe we just need to strip away actual learning how to dance and do more gimmicks. Maybe that's what the judges will appreciate more.

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

We all have to strive to learn what motivates us, learn from our experiences, and what feels right and what feels wrong. There's a strong component over the years to having formal processes that help to identify lessons that need to be learned, and actions that need to be taken. In other words, how do you find the big idea?

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.