Quotes About Learning

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.