Learning Quotes

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I just want to keep learning.

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.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.