944 private quotes tagged learning

“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

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“I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.” — Matthew Lewis

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“I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.” — Sutton Foster

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“I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.” — Georgie Fame

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“To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.” — Eliza Haywood

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“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'” — Eminem

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“I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.” — John Jay Chapman

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“When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.” — Edward Cocker

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“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.” — Liz Carpenter

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“English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.” — Vivien Leigh

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“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.” — Robert Byrne

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“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.” — Rosalyn S. Yalow

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“I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.” — Chantal Kreviazuk

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“My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.” — Miuccia Prada

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“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.” — John Naisbitt

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“But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.” — Daniel Greenberg

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“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

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“I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.” — Kellan Lutz

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“Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.” — Joe Namath

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“Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!” — Patty Murray

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“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.” — Marcus V. Pollio

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“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?” — David Byrne

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