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.

Be curious learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Well immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building with my foundation a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

Before it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly way before they're ready.

And one thing I definitely enjoyed personally from a selfish point of view was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning you know meeting the people and getting to know new sights and sounds etc.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal and I don't know if it ever will be but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius who are often too full to be exact and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me so in turn will I tell it over again to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story its why and its reason.

For example I spent a lot of time with Reagan both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Even if you're improvising the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.