Learning Quotes
I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught, but I shall not attempt to foreshadow the proposals which will be brought before the House tomorrow. Today it will be sufficient and appropriate to deal with the obvious difficulties and confusion of the situation as we found it on taking office.
We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.
One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.
Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.
I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just gotta make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.
I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
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