Quotes About Learning

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.

Coach Clune has been a great person to me, he taught me a lot, linebacker-wise.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff.

Madurai G. S. Mani was my guru, and later M. Balamuralikrishna taught me a lot.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

You simply can't get inside the heads of other people and say to them, 'Look, I went through some rough times.' It's impossible to explain everything the streets taught me, and that was quite a lot.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'