Quotes About Learning

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

I always try to approach each role with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow as an actor.

There was dead silence when we finished the scene. Then Bill spoke. "You know," he said, "sometimes in life, we THINK before we speak." I was mortified. But now I knew three things about acting: pick up your cues, don't wear hats, and think before you speak.

And dinnae be afraid to fail. The only way to learn anything in life is to try and fail, then continue trying until ye succeed.

Books will change your lie, Rennie... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life' Margo said... 'you can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself'...

Books will change your life, Rennie," Mrgot told me, handing me a copy of A Room of One's Own. You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.

Can you remember? When we thought the poets taught how to live?

to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.

My passion for books has changed my life.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

I wasn't a great cook, but I was a passionate one.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I was among the first batch of the students to graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune in 1966, but it wasn't my passport to Bollywood. At that time, no one understood that it is possible to learn acting in an institute.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.