Learning Quotes

"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"Belief gets in the way of learning"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan"

Jared Diamond, Author

"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"I've never stopped learning"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"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"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible"

Manfred von Richthofen, Aviator

"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends"

Rita Dove, Poet

"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, Writer

"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education"

John Hersey, Writer

"I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession"

Halle Berry, Actress

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"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"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time"

Roy Romer, Politician

"That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"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, Businessman

"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much"

William Godwin, Writer

"I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn"

Jaime King, Actress

"It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly"

Richard Price, Writer

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any"

Fred Astaire, Actor

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago"

David Knopfler, Musician

"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality"

Henry Reed, Writer

"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, Astronaut

"You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward"

Elvis Stojko, Athlete

"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps"

Mia Kirshner, Actress

"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through"

Morris West, Writer

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