“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”
Learning does not stop when school ends — if anything, that is when it really begins. These quotes celebrate curiosity, growth, the discomfort of being a beginner, and the deep satisfaction of understanding something that confused you yesterday.
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”
“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”
“I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.”
“Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.”
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”
“I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.”
“I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.”
“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.”
“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.”
“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.”
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
“I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.”
“I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.”
“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”