Learning Quotes
“I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.”
-- Pat Oliphant
“So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.”
-- Sonny Terry
“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
-- Audre Lorde
“It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.”
-- Bo Derek
“The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.”
-- Edward Levi
“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
-- Ayn Rand
“I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.”
-- Anthony Michael Hall
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
-- Will Rogers
“I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.”
-- Joseph P. Kennedy
“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?”
-- David Byrne
“I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.”
-- Stephen Stills
“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
-- Richard Branson
“People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.”
-- Katy Perry
“My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.”
-- Andrew Bird
“I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.”
-- Sophia Bush