Learning Quotes
- Page 6Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
Roy Romer
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Neil Gaiman
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
Sanaa Lathan
My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
Brian Lamb
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
Daniel Goleman
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
John Milius
A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
Eminem
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Humphrey Carpenter
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
Paul Prudhomme
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant
I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
Joaquin Phoenix
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Renee Fleming
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Bobby McFerrin
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Mick Taylor
It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
Christopher Parker
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
Corin Nemec
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
Dan Wheldon