Quotes About Learning

The most intense part of her life is the time she spends immersed in the books she has insatiably consumed ever since she learned to read.

El saber común se ampliaba, un saber despreocupado y sin consecuencia del que, a diferencia de la escuela, solo teníamos que rendir cuentas en la conversación

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

What we shouldn't do is keep our thoughts inside our heads, inert, unchanged by encounters with the world beyond the skull.

Once we recognize this possibility, we can deliberately shape the material worlds in which we learn and work to facilitate mental extension—to enhance "the cognitive congeniality of a space," in the words of David Kirsh, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

The difference such minimal instruction made in participants' ability to recall information, they noted, was "striking": students who incorporated movement into their learning strategy remembered 76 percent of the material, while those who engaged in "deliberate memorization" recalled only 37 percent.

Professional Actors' Learning Strategies,

The good news: research shows that offering simple instructions to parents leads them to gesture more often; in turn, their children also gesture more.

Parents and teachers often believe they have to get kids to stop moving around before they can focus and get down to work, Schweitzer notes; a more constructive approach would be to allow kids to move around so that they can focus.

Pornography is like a mirror through which we can take a look at ourselves. And sometimes what we see doesn't look pretty, and it can make us feel very uncomfortable. But how beautiful to take that look, to see (truth), and to learn. The answer to bad porn is not no porn, but to make better porn!

The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

Beware the man of one book.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

In Germany I am learning everything I need to be a professional.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

I think I have grown as a better actor, I have learnt more about people and professionalism.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.