Quotes About Learning

Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.

Being a leader of the Boomers team is something that I've felt responsible for and being able to learn from the amount of guys that I've been able to - not only on the Boomers in my early days, but also over here in the NBA.

Football Beyond Borders is about learning, establishing new beliefs in an ability to succeed.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

I can't make a movie where I can't learn. I'd die of boredom.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I don't want to know everything, that's so boring.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

I think a true boss knows there is always more to learn.

I adored Boston, and I loved school there.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

Both my parents are from academics.

When something bothers me, I try to learn about it.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.

I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

It's never nice to make mistakes, but it's just how you bounce back.

We are bound to make mistakes.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

I am always trying to get better as a player, no matter how things are going, always trying to expand my game and look into how I can hit more areas or bowl different balls or whatever it is.

I look to improve every time I play, whether batting or bowling.