Learning Quotes
“I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
“I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.”
-- Jessica Simpson
“Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.”
-- Jamie Campbell Bower
“I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.”
-- Jo Durie
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-- Margaret Mead
“I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.”
-- Chad Hugo
“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.”
-- Steve Harvey
“The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.”
-- Tony Snow
“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.”
-- Josh Lucas
“In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.”
-- Ethan Allen
“I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.”
-- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.”
-- Stanley Crouch
“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”
-- Arthur Erickson