Quotes about Learning

“The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.”

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.”

“At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.”

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

“The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about children learning to cook.”

“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.”

“I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don't work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.”

“I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.”

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

“What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.”

“Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.”

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”

“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.”

“I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.”

“The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality.”

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

“What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.”

“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.”

“Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.”

“It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.”

“Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.”