Quotes About Learning

When you're dealing with a shoot day that's costing somebody $300,000; when you're responsible for making that day; when you've got a half-million-dollar stunt that you've got to make sure you cover properly. You don't want to be doing that early in your career. You want to be making your mistakes when not many people are watching.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want to live as - brilliant - not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

People are not stupid.

You don't get old being stupid.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I had some problems in the past when I made some stupid mistakes and got some stupid cards, but I learned a lot from this, and I know now how to calm myself down.

When you're young, you're stupid.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.