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.'
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 still learning all the time.
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
Learning how to fly for me was so euphoric.
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.
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.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
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.
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.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy never become beneficial.
There is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as is praise.
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think might dispose us to modesty.
The fact is that the learning process goes on and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.
Most organizations should be pro-active but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
Basketball in America is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.