Quotes About Learning

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.

I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

Embrace the creativity and don't care about the result. It's better to be a beginner till the end of the life than waiting forever to be perfect.

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

She did not need a library; she was a library.

Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

If you tell me slowly, I can understand quickly.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginner here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go.

Everybody imitates before they can innovate.

I don't know exactly what I am, but I am curious enough to go find out!

If you made something and it didn't work out, let it go. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner—even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget

Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And

You may spend your whole life following your curiosity and have absolutely nothing to show for it at the end except one thing. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you passed your entire existence in devotion to the noble human virtue of inquisitiveness.

You might spend your whole life following your curiosity and have absolutely nothing to show for it at the end—except one thing. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you passed your entire existence in devotion to the noble human virtue of inquisitiveness. And that should be more than enough for anyone to say that they lived a rich and splendid life.

He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness

It could take me a whole year just to finish one tiny short story. Most of the time, all I was doing was imitating my favorite authors, anyhow. I went through a Hemingway stage (who doesn't?), but I also went through a pretty serious Annie Proulx stage and a rather embarrassing Cormac McCarthy stage. But that's what you have to do at the beginning; everybody imitates before they can innovate.

when I was nineteen years old and an idiot