Quotes About Learning

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.

If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them -- "teachable moments".

The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

What you know has produced what you have; if you're not happy with what you have, then improve what you know.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

It's easier to teach a hungry person how to be sharp than it is to teach a sharp person how to be hungry.

People will not change their minds but they will make new decisions based upon new information.