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Tracy Kidder on learning
Author: Tracy Kidder“The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.” -Tracy Kidder
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Meshell Ndegeocello on learning
Author: Meshell Ndegeocello“It’s interesting to do other people’s music – that’s how I learned to play, by learning other people’s songs. It’s nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.” -Meshell Ndegeocello
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David R. Ellis on learning
Author: David R. Ellis“I felt that if there wasn’t going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.” -David R. Ellis
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Robert Sternberg on learning
Author: Robert Sternberg“To the Kenyan families, school doesn’t really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they’re spending their time learning things that are important to them.” -Robert Sternberg
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Trisha Goddard on learning
Author: Trisha Goddard“There is a learning quality in all of our shows.” -Trisha Goddard
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Albert J. Nock on learning
Author: Albert J. Nock“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.” -Albert J. Nock
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Bill Budge on learning
Author: Bill Budge“Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.” -Bill Budge
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Diane Cilento on learning
Author: Diane Cilento“The best part of learning any profession, when you’re really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.” -Diane Cilento
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Gil Scott-Heron on learning
Author: Gil Scott-Heron“You have to learn and keep learning.” -Gil Scott-Heron
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Rian Johnson on learning
Author: Rian Johnson“Hopefully with each thing that you do you’re learning something, you’re growing, and you’re pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you’d be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn’t feel like ‘Oh, wow. I feel like I’m doing something a little different this time.’”…
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Hayden Panettiere on learning
Author: Hayden Panettiere“I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I’ve had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It’s like a better version of a class. Even though I’m not sitting at a desk and in school, I’m…
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Hilary Swank on learning
Author: Hilary Swank“Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.” -Hilary Swank
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James Fallows on learning
Author: James Fallows“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.” -James Fallows
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Oren Peli on learning
Author: Oren Peli“I’ve always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.” -Oren Peli
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Thomas Menino on learning
Author: Thomas Menino“One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.” -Thomas Menino
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Alex Ferguson on learning
Author: Alex Ferguson“Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. I’m also learning to play the piano – I’m quite determined – it’s another release from the pressure of my job.” -Alex Ferguson
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Katharine Fullerton Gerould on learning
Author: Katharine Fullerton Gerould“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Joseph Stiglitz on learning
Author: Joseph Stiglitz“My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.” -Joseph Stiglitz
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Ryne Sandberg on learning
Author: Ryne Sandberg“If this validates anything, it’s that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.” -Ryne Sandberg
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Kent McCord on learning
Author: Kent McCord“That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn’t realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.” -Kent McCord
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Helen Frankenthaler on learning
Author: Helen Frankenthaler“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.” -Helen Frankenthaler
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Anthony Michael Hall on learning
Author: Anthony Michael Hall“I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs.” -Anthony Michael Hall
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John Milius on learning
Author: John Milius“Also, they don’t understand – writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.” -John Milius
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Michael Baden on learning
Author: Michael Baden“I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.” -Michael Baden
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Robert B. Parker on learning
Author: Robert B. Parker“It’s tempting to say the Ph.D. didn’t have an effect, but it’s not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.” -Robert B. Parker