Quotes About Learning

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.