Top 100 Learn Something Quotes
#1. Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#2. So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.
Cheech Marin
#3. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
Neil Gaiman
#4. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.
Anthony Burgess
#5. I hope everything works in our favor. The show ["Are We There Yet?"] is cool. It's family fare. We ain't aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we're making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.
Ice Cube
#6. By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
#7. The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
Austin Kleon
#8. You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
Sam Harris
#9. Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.
Jessica Zafra
#10. I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.
Justin Verlander
#11. [Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
Steven L. Peck
#12. Then you've learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
David Eddings
#13. It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned ... You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.
Chaim Potok
#14. Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.
Stephanie Perkins
#15. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dalai Lama XIV
#16. I always know God is there, but He confuses me still at times. It is hard when you go through a valley. Just remember, 'I'm going to learn something in this valley that I would not have otherwise learned, and I am who I am today because of what I have been through,
Nick Vujicic
#17. I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
Clint Eastwood
#18. I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
Andrea Bocelli
#19. If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!
Seymour Papert
#20. As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
Juliette Binoche
#21. Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'
John Wooden
#22. Life is about learning and we all learn something from one another. Today I remember them and thank for their contribution to shape up my life.
Pankaj Gupta
#23. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.
Swami Satchidananda
#24. When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
Norton Juster
#25. You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
Nolan Bushnell
#26. I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli
#27. I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#28. How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Matt Groening
#29. Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
Spencer Johnson
#30. I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
Jim Butcher
#31. Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.
Robert Kiyosaki
#32. One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
Francis Ford Coppola
#33. You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
Jamie Hince
#34. Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
Al Pacino
#35. [If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.
David Ayer
#36. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.
Barack Obama
#37. I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#38. Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
William Ramsay
#39. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.
Amy Harmon
#40. You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
Mark Ryan
#41. You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.
Robin Yount
#42. When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.
Teri Hatcher
#43. A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.
Paul Halmos
#44. I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.
Louise Nurding
#45. I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#46. You learn something every day, unless you're careful.
Tom Van Vleck
#47. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.
Blake Russell
#48. You always learn something from mistakes.
Yani Tseng
#49. If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance,
Thomas A Kempis
#50. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
Nathanael Emmons
#51. Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
Rachel Kushner
#53. Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
Jeannette Walls
#54. I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.
Marion Cotillard
#55. Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.
David Ortiz
#56. Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and gapes for effect, and it makes me laugh - "and you realize there's so much more that's waiting. Eighty years isn't enough. Or a hundred. Whatever. It's just not.
Robin Sloan
#57. Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don't make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.
Charlotte Eriksson
#58. Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.
Bryan Burk
#59. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
Eric Schmidt
#60. You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan
#61. Remember, when you talk, you only repeat what you already know; if you listen, you might learn something.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#62. Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
#63. But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared
Orson Scott Card
#64. Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.
Maya Angelou
#65. I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.
Jared Harris
#66. Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
Dale Evans
#67. Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Eliza Green
#68. I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince.
Veronica Henry
#69. I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
Michel De Montaigne
#70. Want to make today a great day? Learn something new, reconnect with a light from your past, right a wrong, serve someone incapable of repaying you, smile at your own image and thank God for who you are and all that you have.
Toni Sorenson
#71. Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!
John Hench
#72. When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
E.L. Konigsburg
#73. We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.
Tina Sloan
#74. Where there is a lesson to be learned there is always an opportunity of change to be gained. Change comes by learning, help us Lord Jesus to learn something from every lesson.
Euginia Herlihy
#75. When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
Rebecca Makkai
#76. To flee from the battle is the worst thing that could happen. It is worse than losing the fight, because we can always learn something from defeat; if we flee, all we do is declare that our enemy has won.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.
Tom Clancy
#78. It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.
Gavin Schmidt
#79. With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.
Nicole Richie
#80. A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
Alan W. Watts
#81. You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.
Kim Basinger
#82. Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
#83. I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.
Reggie Watts
#84. Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.
Spencer Johnson
#85. I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
Isabel Lucas
#86. Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)
Diana Rose Morcilla
#87. Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.
Ernest Hemingway,
#89. I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.
Anousheh Ansari
#90. To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Stephen Covey
#91. The best learners ... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
Stephen Brookfield
#92. The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
P.W. Catanese
#94. Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
Victor Borge
#95. When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.
Joe Jonas
#96. You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton
#97. Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Eleanor Roosevelt
#98. Every performance is an opportunity to have something new or to learn something new.
Reggie Watts
#99. Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers - and viewers - to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
#100. Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
Jay Maisel
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