That folk music led to learning to play and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress city council and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

That was a real learning element for me because I realized that the more true you are to yourself the more you will lose people.

I'm learning but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

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.

Your work is first learning is first winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Just because you are CEO don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning the way you think and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

I am involved with 'Write Girl ' which is such a great organization because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school because I'm learning.

Generally I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

You should be having more fun in high school exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

My father had never watched tennis never liked tennis too much. He said 'OK we buy a racket we watch together ' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

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.

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.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view and then learning how to perform that function.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.