Learning Quotes

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
– Laura Bush
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
– Roger Ascham
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
– Isaac Watts
Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.
– Joe Flanigan
Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
– Jeffrey Kluger
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.
– Eric Ries
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
– Sarah Wayne Callies
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
– George Lucas
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
– Ritchie Blackmore
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
– Roger Ascham
Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.
– Rob Mariano
Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.
– Renee Fleming
Learning something new is fun.
– Alex Trebek
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
– Luciano Pavarotti
Learning never exhausts the mind.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
– Paul Lynde
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
– William Godwin
Learning lines is my biggest challenge.
– Tim Meadows
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
– Herbert Simon
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
– Jamie Moyer
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
– Tony Buzan
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
– Carter Burwell
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
– Hilary Swank
Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.
– Erin Gray
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
– Jeremy Collier
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
– Albert J. Nock
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
– Nicholas Negroponte
Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
– Ellen Pompeo
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
– Richie Sambora
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
– Michael Gove
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
– Aeschylus
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
– Annette Funicello
Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
– Haley Joel Osment
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
– Indra Nooyi
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
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
– Sly Stone
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
– Floyd Abrams
It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
– Christopher Parker
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
– Daniel Radcliffe
It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
– Fred Frith
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
– Leigh Steinberg
It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
– Valerie Simpson
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
– Meshell Ndegeocello
It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
– Tina Weymouth
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
– Jeff Foxworthy
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
– John Davidson
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
– Trevor Dunn
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
– Julia Ormond
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
– Henry David Thoreau
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
– Edward Sapir
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
– Rory McIlroy
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
– Michael Gove
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
– Laura Linney
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.
– Giada De Laurentiis
It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.
– Sofia Vergara
It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.
– Ezra Miller
It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
– Adam Sandler
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
– Donald Norman
Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
– Miranda Lambert
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
– Emma Thompson
In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
– Chris O'Donnell
In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
– Linda Ronstadt
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
– Andres Iniesta
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
– Suzanne Vega
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
– Mark Zuckerberg
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
– Koichi Tanaka
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
– Roger Ascham
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
– Neil Gaiman
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
– Ajay Naidu
In any of the arts, you never stop learning.
– Claire Bloom
In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
– James Cronin
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
– Mike Watt
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
– Katharine Fullerton Gerould
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
– Bodhidharma
If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
– Gary Ross
If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?
– John Rowland
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
– Nagarjuna
If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.
– Ryne Sandberg
If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
– Giada De Laurentiis
If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
– Benjamin Walker
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
– Charles M. Schulz
If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
– James Spader
If I am through learning, I am through.
– John Wooden
I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
– Tony Williams
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.
– Hope Davis
I've never stopped learning.
– Mick Taylor
I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.
– Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.
– Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou
I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
– Santigold
I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
– Bobby Sherman
I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.
– Mark Pincus
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
– Ben Affleck
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
– John Mayer
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
– Sutton Foster
I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.
– Sarah Drew
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
– Phil Collins
I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.
– Masaharu Morimoto
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
– Jet Li