Learning Skill Quotes

#1. The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn't replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.

Josh Kaufman

#2. The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Robin Hoyle

#3. Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

John Ensign

#4. I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.

Jessica Clark

#5. The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Albert Einstein

#6. Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sugata Mitra

#7. Start even if you don't know how.

Wendy Tremayne

#8. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Steve Goodier

#9. We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

#10. Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently

Catherine Cox

#11. People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Travis Fimmel

#12. ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

Daniel Keyes

#13. A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.

Sybrina Durant

#15. Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

Pearl Cleage

#16. If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

Denis Diderot

#17. When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.

Anton Du Beke

#18. No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

Twyla Tharp

#19. Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

#20. Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#21. The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Antony Sher

#22. That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

Doseone

#23. The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

#24. Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

David A. Heenan

#25. The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set.

Chris Matakas

#26. There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#27. What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.

Robert Greene

#28. Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one's lifetime.

Veronica Schanoes

#29. Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

Pattiann Rogers

#30. The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you're comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

Matt Bomer

#31. In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

#32. When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.

Jon Favreau

#33. I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#34. As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alberto Manguel

#35. In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

#36. Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

John Milius

#37. I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Laura Linney

#38. Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Barack Obama

#39. The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

Peter Drucker

#40. Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Michael Merzenich

#41. Learning how to say no is an important skill in life, but I've always thought that every time you refuse something, you end up dying a little.

Jane D. Red

#42. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

Jennifer James

#43. Doing all the rig work and the stunt work has actually been wonderful. It's a whole new skill set that I've learned that I'll get to take onto my next jobs. We get to do that all the time, the fighting and the learning new moves. It's quite exciting.

Dustin Clare

#44. Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

Frans G. Bengtsson

#45. speed is a skill; therefore, the skill of sprinting can be taught if proper progression and principles of motor learning are applied.

Vern Gambetta

#46. The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,

John Doerr

#47. University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

C. JoyBell C.

#48. Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Thomas Szasz

#49. Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Oliver Goldsmith

#50. Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tony Buzan

#51. Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

#52. If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Elkind

#53. We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Alison Gopnik

#54. 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!

Zooey Deschanel

#55. Repetition is indeed a great teacher when learning any mathematical skill.

Kenneth Williams

#56. Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#57. The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

Po Bronson

#58. It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Bruce Lee