Learning Quotes

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

You keep learning all the time.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.