Learning Quotes
“The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.”
-- Steve Irwin
“Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.”
-- Bonnie Hunt
“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.”
-- Jim Carrey
“You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.”
-- Lucinda Williams
“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.”
-- Natasha Henstridge
“I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.”
-- Johnny Winter
“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
“There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.”
-- Mike Mills
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
-- Denis Waitley
“We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.”
-- Eric Cantor
“I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.”
-- Jonathan Demme
“The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.”
-- Bruce Cockburn
“I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.”
-- Paul Gascoigne
“I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.”
-- Regina King