Quotes About Learning

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

An experience abroad really enriches you.

Working abroad made me better.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

I didn't go abroad until I was 16.

I don't think I know everything because I don't watch much news from abroad.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

There's a lot of potential for machine learning all around the world. We're seeing it in academia, at other companies, in government.

At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Too many children lose ground academically over the summer months.

I'm a child of academics.