Quotes About Learning

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I did some good things as a rookie.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

A good education is another name for happiness.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Good information is the best medicine.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.