Quotes About Learning

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

English was always my favorite subject.

What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

Math - it's not my best subject.

I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about.

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.