Quotes About Learning

When you start the game, coaches will tell you to do stuff in a particular way, and kids do that. But the moment you start first-class cricket, the coach needs to tell you, 'Try this, try that,' instead of, 'Do this, do that.' If you feel comfortable, you can take it; otherwise, leave it.

As I played a lot of tennis ball cricket, I used to watch Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis a lot.

I have learned a lot playing in domestic first-class cricket: how to score runs, how to counter situations.

My father didn't know about cricket. Then, one of my father's friend advised him to take me to a coaching camp.

As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

I spent a lot of time with Rahul Dravid, working on my game and chatting about cricket. He helped me a lot in the games I played for India 'A.'

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

It's the games you lose or struggle in that you learn most from in Test cricket.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

I went to beauty school when I was 19 because I thought it seemed funny, not because I thought I'd be good at it. I was terrible at first. I gave a girl a perm, and she cried.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

I just never learned to think critically.

I take constructive criticism really well.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

I have to accept constructive criticism.

I'm always trying to improve. I think I take criticism constructively.

As an actor, it's really important for me to improve my work, and I take criticism in a positive sense.

It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't always get everything right.

I take the constructive criticism only.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?