Quotes About Learning

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be learning stuff.

I've learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I've made; I've understood why I made them.

I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically.

Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.

I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I know about barbecue from those books.

Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

I took a lot of writing courses.

The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

I took pre-med courses in college.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

I was raised by my grandmother, my mom, about five or six aunts and female cousins as well. We were all in one building. I definitely learned how to respect and how to treat women.

When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.