Quotes About Learning

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

My father had very little formal education.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I've never read one book about my father.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.