3 December 2020 Sonny Terry So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
3 December 2020 Geddy Lee I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
3 December 2020 Joanne Woodward My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I’m learning so much from her.
3 December 2020 Joseph P. Kennedy I’ve had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
3 December 2020 James S. Coleman A child’s learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
3 December 2020 Katharine Fullerton Gerould 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.
3 December 2020 John Hartford After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
3 December 2020 Lucy Maud Montgomery We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
3 December 2020 Frankie Muniz Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else’s technique. I like mine.
3 December 2020 Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jane I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
3 December 2020 Trevor Dunn It wasn’t until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
3 December 2020 Vernon Law Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Peyroux I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
3 December 2020 Bob Edwards A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
3 December 2020 Stephen Jay Gould Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as ‘the intelligent layperson’ does exist – in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
3 December 2020 Tarja Halonen The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
3 December 2020 Oren Peli 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.
3 December 2020 Mstislav Rostropovich When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice – my voice.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
3 December 2020 Steven Pinker There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
3 December 2020 Picabo Street I’m social and I meet people and talk to people but I’m not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I’m just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I’m around and who I cross paths with.
