Quotes About Learning

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Didacticism is the death of art.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

See, American boyfriend? Eventually I am not so stupid a Croatian Catholic shiksa woman. I even learn to say 'ain't.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

he spoke from ignorance then, and admits as much today.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.