Quotes About Learning

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.

Listen, there's been times in my life like the two years that I only listened to jazz, and probably nothing after 1966. When I went to the Manhattan School of Music, the library didn't have anything after 1966. In order to get good at that, I had to tunnel-vision and focus on that.

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.'

Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people.

I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I'd been a county captain. It made a huge difference.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

In general, the human race is still a young organism.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.

The global e-learning online market is on fire. Organizations which feel left out of this non-linear world of opportunities are seeing the need to adopt this new way of lifelong learning.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

There is no original truth, only original error.

I am your original autodidact.