“It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.”

“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”

“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”

“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”

“I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.”

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.”

“Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know.”

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

“During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.”

“Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.”

“Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.”

“I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.”

“We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.”

“I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.”

“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”

“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”

“I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.”

“After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.”

“I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.”