Quotes About Learning

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.

My favourite lessons in college were when we would have a professional teach us, or when we went out of the classroom for the day. You take in so much more when someone who's been there and done it is telling you.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.

Love's hard. It's hard work. No one tells you that.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you're in the right job or the wrong one.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

I have worked really hard to reach where I am - I worked hard on my Hindi and diction because I am a Parsi and Hindi is not my strong point, and I've also learnt Tamil and Telugu because I want to get my lines right. I want to be known as a performer.

I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.