Learning Quotes

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

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?'

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.