Learning Quotes

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
– William Green
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
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
– Oren Peli
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.
– Shirley Knight
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
– Corey Haim
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
– Mick Mars
I'm still learning my craft.
– Yann Martel
I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
– Lena Horne
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
– Orlando Bloom
I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.
– Picabo Street
I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
– Matthew Fox
I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
– Cory Monteith
I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.
– Shawn Johnson
I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
– Tom Cruise
I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.
– Paul Duffy
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
– Micky Dolenz
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
– Louisa May Alcott
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
– Cleo Moore
I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.
– Mike Wallace
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
– Marguerite Moreau
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
– Brie Larson
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
– Michael W. Smith
I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
– Dana Plato
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
– Halle Berry
I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.
– Erica Durance
I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
– Karlie Kloss
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
– Zoe Saldana
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
– Doris Roberts
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
– Traci Bingham
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
– Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.
– Mick Cornett
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
– Drew Barrymore
I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
– Jessica Simpson
I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
– Felicity Jones
I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
– Jeb Bush
I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
– Alton Brown
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
– Doug E. Fresh
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
– Carson Daly
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.
– Kristin Chenoweth
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
– Mandy Patinkin
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
– Christopher Meloni
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.
– Lucy Hale
I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
– Archie Panjabi
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
– Ellen DeGeneres
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
– Herb Ritts
I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
– Mike Peters
I would fain grow old learning many things.
– Plato
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
– Lionel Hampton
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
– Channing Tatum
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
– Flavius Josephus
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
– Shimon Peres
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
– Madeleine Peyroux
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
– Dan Farmer
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
– Sloane Crosley
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
– David Selby
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
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
– Alan Parsons
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
– Stanley Crouch
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
– Jessye Norman
I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.
– Emmanuel Lewis
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
– Michael Schenker
I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.
– Marlen Esparza
I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.
– Antonio Banderas
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
– David Knopfler
I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
– Judy Holliday
I think you're working and learning until you die.
– J. K. Rowling
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
– James Blake
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
– Esperanza Spalding
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'
– Ryan Hall
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
– Chiaki Kuriyama
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
– Jaime King
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
– Anthony Michael Hall
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
– Cat Deeley
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.
– Garry Kasparov
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
– Chaske Spencer
I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
– Christina Ricci
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
– Ziggy Marley
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
– Sandra Cisneros
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
– Paula Danziger
I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
– Lindsay Lohan
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
– Norton Juster
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
– John Otto
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.
– Beverley Mitchell
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
– Josh Lucas
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
– Winona Ryder
I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.
– Linda Cardellini
I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
– Linda Vester
I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.
– Matthew Lewis
I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.
– Kiri Te Kanawa
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
– Kevin McKidd
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
– Ricky Williams
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
– Johnny Winter
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
– Andrew Dost
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
– Thomas Jane
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
– Roger Goodell
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
– Stephen Daldry
I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.
– Hayden Panettiere
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
– Jet Li
I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.
– Nikki Giovanni