Quotes About Learning

I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.

Stars was really good training. You know, we would come in at noon, and, you know, we would learn at that time what we were going to cook that evening. And, you know, there wasn't a set menu per se.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.

I'm not perfect. I make mistakes.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Perfect score... it should never happen! There is always room for improvement.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

Not every pass-rush move is going to work to perfection, so therefore, you've got to figure out what's best for you.

You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist.