Quotes About Learning

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

I kind of think I have the best job in America. I work with amazing people who challenge me daily. My job as a memeber of DoSomething.org is never boring. I'm constantly learning. And we laugh a lot.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.

Labor is God's education.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.