Learning Quotes

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.
– Jenna Ushkowitz
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
– Paul Wellstone
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
– Doris Kearns Goodwin
I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
– Kiri Te Kanawa
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
– Geddy Lee
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
– Chad Hugo
I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!
– Paul Prudhomme
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
– Dee Snider
I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.
– Paul Gascoigne
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
– Lou Holtz
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
– Vivien Leigh
I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.
– Christina Hendricks
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
– David Duchovny
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
– Burt Ward
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
– Estella Warren
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
– Mario Lopez
I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.
– Leona Lewis
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
– Jackson Rathbone
I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
– Andie MacDowell
I love learning new techniques.
– David Bailey
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
– Ron Rash
I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
– Paul Merton
I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.
– Bruce Weber
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
– Dominic Monaghan
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
– Jaime King
I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.
– Jessica Ennis
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
– Margaret Mead
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
– George Bernard Shaw
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.
– Regina King
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
– Timothy Spall
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
– Jet Li
I just want to keep learning.
– Simon Kinberg
I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.
– Thomas Keller
I hope I'm always learning something.
– Kate Winslet
I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
– Maria Sharapova
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
I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.
– Melissa Joan Hart
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
– Daniel Defoe
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?
– Beth Ditto
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
– Lloyd Bentsen
I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.
– Don Mattingly
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
– Fay Godwin
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
– Sanaa Lathan
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
– Laura Linney
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
– Philippe Perrin
I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.
– Dannii Minogue
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
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
– Brian Eno
I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.
– Freida Pinto
I grow old learning something new every day.
– Solon
I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
– Ezra Koenig
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
– Angela Davis
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
– Carla Bley
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
– Ann Bancroft
I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
– David R. Ellis
I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
– Ringo Starr
I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.
– Tim McGraw
I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
– Anna Kendrick
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
– Stephen Stills
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
– Harold H. Greene
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
– Georgina Chapman
I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.
– Kenny Wormald
I enjoy learning technical details.
– Ken Follett
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
– Laura Linney
I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
– Delta Goodrem
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
– Jim Carrey
I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.
– Ben Lovett
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
– Mick Taylor
I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.
– Jo Durie
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
– Brie Larson
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
– Jonathan Demme
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.
– Steve Martin
I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.
– Stephen Chow
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
– Scott Turow
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
– Ayrton Senna
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
– Ron Silver
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
– Buddy Rich
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
– Channing Tatum
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
– Paul Kane
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
– Sandra Bullock
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
– Pat Oliphant
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
– Jane Siberry
I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
– Natasha Henstridge
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
– Dick Schaap
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
– Andrea Jung
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
– Georgie Fame
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
– Joely Fisher
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
– Todd Rokita
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
– Kenny Loggins
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
– Maria Mitchell
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
– Melissa Rosenberg
I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.
– Jordin Sparks
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
– Mia Kirshner
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
– Monica Denise Brown
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
– Lance Burton
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
– Miley Cyrus
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
– Kelly Hu
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
– Tom Hiddleston
I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.
– Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
– Pearl Bailey