Learning Quotes

"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart"

"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language"

John Milius, Director

"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"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"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, Celebrity

"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them"

Carl Levin, Politician

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep"

Suzanne Fields

"Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal"

Suzanne Fields

"I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade"

Vernon Law, Athlete

"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements"

John Sexton, Educator

"And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks"

Isaac Watts, Politician

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history"

Carl T. Rowan, Journalist

"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up"

Patty Murray, Politician

"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"

Neil Jordan, Director

"The trick in life is learning how to deal with it"

Helen Mirren, Actress

"By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients"

Andrew Weil, Scientist

"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"

Jean Henri Fabre, Author

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"

Plato, Philosopher

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune"

Plato, Philosopher

"I would fain grow old learning many things"

Plato, Philosopher

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal"

Plato, Philosopher