Quotes About Learning

I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I was a horrible student.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'll always be a student of music.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.