Quotes About Learning

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

I learn from each match that I have, especially when it's a different opponent.

I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

I learnt a lot of things in Holland, as people have great vision there. It improved me as a player and a person. I had very good coaches that wanted to play offensive football and dominate games and be better than their opponent. You also need to play for your team-mates as well as yourself; then, afterwards, you can show your own quality.

It's not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.

I'm getting better when I have a good opponent. And so I try to analyze my own game.

I learn from my mistakes and I learned how to accept things and how to take them whenever my opponent changes.

Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

I like fighting where my opponents are better.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Earning a certificate or degree, or both, after high school opens the door to countless economic opportunities.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.