Learning Quotes
“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”
“The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.”
-- Humphrey Carpenter
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
-- Khalil Gibran
“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”
-- Glenda Jackson
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”
-- Thomas Szasz
“After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.”
-- Hu Shih
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”
-- e. e. cummings