Quotes About Learning

Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival;

We're hardwired by nature to find common social ground, to believe that whatever we're doing today is normal and not much different from the way people have always behaved. We assume human achievement is on an upward slope, that learning from the past has made us stronger and smarter than anyone of the past.

Fascia knows where you are in the world; it's loaded with position sensors that contribute to your sense of balance and feeds those bearings directly to that fear-conditioning corner of your brain, the amygdala. Any movement grooved into the fascia feels soothing, gratifying, efficient; try to unlearn it, as any batting coach or ballet teacher will tell you, and you're in for a struggle. New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

a boy learns better what he teaches himself....

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.

Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.

but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.   Let us prescribe for you.

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

You sell a man a book, you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Non esiste in astratto un buon libro: un libro è buono soltanto quando appaga una fame umana, o confuta qualche umano errore.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.