Quotes About Learning

Telugu is a lot like Kannada, so I don't have a problem with Telugu. But Tamil is very difficult to learn, man.

Learning Telugu was scary.

At 14, I started reading popular scripts, wanted to learn Telugu, read books and improve my language. Then I got married at 15.

I may not write poetry in Telugu but I need to get the nuances right.

I speak Telugu, so learning Kannada was not all that tough.

It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.

I could easily master Telugu, but picking up Malayalam was challenging.

Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.

You can definitely train your awareness to be even better than it is. Of course, you start with a certain point of feelings and awareness on the pitch. But I think the more you get in positions, the more you get used to it, the more you get used to the tempo of your team-mates, everything. It feels more and more natural, and quicker and quicker.

I try to maintain an even tempo in all the games. Sometimes you play well and sometimes you get out. When you get out, you feel it is a wrong shot. Most players in tough situations play shots that could be out, but over time you refine that and give yourself the best chance of performing, the more you play in such situations.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

I never liked the way the professor used the books — zeroing in on "the text," raking and raking, sifting and sifting it through narrower and narrower filters.

read to each other from novels by George Eliot and Dickens and Hardy and Tolstoy during my elementary school years. My brother Bill (now a professor of English)

She like history . . . and wished the English teacher would ask the class to read history books. Instead the teacher was 'always' assigning poems.

For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. From time to time, unshaved and sloppily dressed, he would appear in the street to take a meal or perform some errand. Then it was back to his room for more study.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is generally studied only by advanced students of physics, but Albert had mastered it by the time he was sixteen years old.

In later life, he [Einstein] would say that love is the best teacher, meaning that if you love a thing, you will be eager to learn about it, and the work will not seem hard.

Good CIOs are hard to find. Even if you can find one, it may take as much as a year for a CIO new to the company to learn the company environment and become an effective leader.

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!