Quotes About Learning

I am actually learning to enjoy bowling, and I never thought I'd say that. I didn't enjoy it in the past because it hurt. It hurt my back or my ankle.

All these years I have spent bowling have helped me understand the game better.

Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

There are always improvements to make, no boxer in the world does everything right.

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Just as our bodies need to be exercised, so, perhaps, do our brains.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

The key thing is to educate not just kids but adults about what goes into food. You do that in any way you can, bread machine or not.

You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you've played has to be on what's in front of you.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

I try to bring awareness, not just to CP but to all disabilities in the sense that it's knowledge. My disability gave me so much knowledge that I was able to take into 'Breaking Bad' and to grow and to learn.

I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public.

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't see books and learning as a separate part of life.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

Kids who read are bright.

At ten I was bright.