Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

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"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God, this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"I always want to learn, but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner"

Shannon Elizabeth, Actress

"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met"

Levon Helm, Musician

"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it"

James Newman, Astronaut

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity"

Nancy Astor, Politician

"Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation"

Gaston Caperton, Politician

"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"In this way, some film schools can be destructive"

Richard King, Director

"Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off"

Gaston Caperton, Politician

"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old, I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books"

David Copperfield, Celebrity

"Many people who excel are self-taught"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"I studied literature, design and fashion design"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"We do not learn first what to talk about, and then what to say about it"

Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosopher

"Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up"

Richard Masur, Actor

"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"Watching a good actor is the best way to learn"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs"

John Warner, Politician

"You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included"

Major Owens, Politician

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"This life is a process of learning"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

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