Learning Quotations | Page 5

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

'Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.

I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

I'm so supported, and I'm so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don't feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it... and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I'm learning every day as a mother.

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.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.

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.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.