“Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.”
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.
“It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.”
“Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.”
“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.”
“Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.”
“Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.”
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
“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.”
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”
“There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”
“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”
“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”