Quotes About Learning

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I went to pro ball, it would be a little bit better.' Now that I look back on it, I made the right choice.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

I feel like a pro now. Before I fought Holmes, I felt like a rookie.

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

One thing is a pro is supposed to make certain plays, while a college player is learning to make plays.

Presenting a show is totally different to what I'm used to. People think it's easy but it's much more difficult than they think. But, by the end, I will be a pro.

Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

I try to learn with experience. This is my process of learning, so I try my 100 per cent.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.