Quotes About Learning

Compliments are the fool's gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and worthless.

Learn from your mentors, own the traits of the greats but acknowledge your own unique abilities.

Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.

Tacos will grow on Christmas trees before I learn to carry a tune. Fortunately, it doesn't matter. In karaoke, talent means nada; enthusiasm is everything. What I lack in talent, I make up for in passion. Hence my karaoke problem.

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.

Garth was a reservoir of brilliant music, and I wanted to dive in deeply to learn and understand enough of it to appreciate its rewards.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

being in a room (or warehouse or store) full of books. I love the thrill of discovering

The development of skills is the meat of learning. The imparting of skills is the meat of teaching,

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

Measure your life by improvements rather than mistakes.

There is something to be gained with each misstep that is ultimately understood.

Emerson put the development of the individual, rather than service to society, at the heart of his educational vision.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd see a film and think, "Man, I want to be sure to never do anything like that." So I never learned their names. It wasn't a matter of copying or emulating somebody I admired. It was getting rid of a lot of stuff.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing to do with college degrees or reading books. True intelligence is a willingness to exchange a fallacy for a fact.

we will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.