A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a whi...
All men begin their learning with Homer.
I'm still learning my craft.
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.
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were l...
I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.
If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't l...
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove...
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.
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.
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
