Learning Quotes

• I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Character
  • Acting
  • Identify

• It's a track where everyone can go flat easy. It's a track where equipment sometimes takes over for the driving. But that's for speed. The draft is very important here and we have been learning what it takes, so hopefully we will be able to learn from that and win.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Track
  • Hopefully
  • Equipment

• The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Silent

• What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Students
  • Research
  • Emphasis

• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Learning
  • Beginnings

• Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Fear
  • Information
  • Institution

• Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Waste
  • Customer
  • Industries

• The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learning
  • Practice
  • Afraid

• Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

  

  Mya
  • Learning
  • Passion
  • New

• There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Galaxy

• The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Feedback

• I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Passionate

• If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Relax
  • Grades

• It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Business
  • Success
  • Technology

• I was so enthralled watching 'Guys and Dolls' and learning about the Rat Pack.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Learning

• The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Remember
  • Wonder
  • Beauty

• Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Imagination
  • Burning
  • Authors

• A career in acting, it's a learning process.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Learning
  • Acting
  • Process

• Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  

  Euripides
  • Learning
  • Dead
  • Loses

• A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Learning
  • Rain
  • Cloud

• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Learning
  • Working

• If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Educate

• When children start learning math in school, they already have a basic understanding of the concepts. This understanding should guide teachers to work on enhancing these skills.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Children
  • School
  • Skills

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