Learning Quotes
“I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.”
-- John Carpenter
“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”
-- David Hume
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
-- Brad Henry
“Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.”
-- Mariska Hargitay
“There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.”
-- Rene Redzepi
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.”
-- Donald Trump
“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”
-- Martha Graham
“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”
-- Renee Fleming
“Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.”
-- Cher
“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.”
-- Matt Damon
“I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.”
-- Christina Milian
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
-- Michel de Montaigne