Quotes About Learning

The better I understand the language, the more confusing it is.

When you're in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to last. Reading in Italian arouses a similar longing in me. I don't want to die, because my death would mean the end of my discovery of the language. Because every day there will be a new word to learn. Thus true love can represent eternity.

Una lingua nuova è quasi una vita nuova, grammatica e sintassi ti rifondo, scivoli dentro un'altra logica e un altro sentimento.

Studiando una lingua straniera in questo modo, non si può affogare. L'altra lingua è sempre lí per sostenerti, per salvarti. Ma non basta galleggiare senza la possibilità di annegare, di colare a picco. Per conoscere una nuova lingua, per immergersi, si deve lasciare la sponda. Senza salvagente. Senza poter contare sulla terraferma.

Questo libro mi permette di leggerne altri, di aprire la porta di una nuova lingua. Mi accompagna, ancora adesso, quando vado in vacanza, durante i viaggi. È diventato una necessità.

So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's all about applying yourself and taking time to work and train.

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.