Learning Quotes
“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
“The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.”
-- Suzanne Fields
“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”
-- Anthony de Mello
“We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.”
-- Tom Conway
“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”
-- Julius Erving
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
-- Frederick Douglass
“I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.”
-- Travis Barker
“You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.”
-- Ken Burns
“The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.”
-- Tarja Halonen
“I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.”
-- Jenna Ushkowitz