“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
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“I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.”
“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.”
“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.”
“Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.”
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
“Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.”
“Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.”
“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.”
“Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.”
“It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
“I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.”
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
“It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.”
“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.”
“This life is a process of learning.”
“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
“You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.”
“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”
“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”
“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.”