Quotes About Learning From People

#1. I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

Asa Larsson

#2. What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen

#3. I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Lauren Bacall

#4. I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Douglas Brinkley

#5. Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

Peter Senge

#6. I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people.

Derek Hough

#7. It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

Diana Wynne Jones

#8. You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Lev Grossman

#9. 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.

Umberto Eco

#10. My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq ... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

A.R. Rahman

#11. In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Jennifer Lawrence

#12. Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.

Richard Branson

#13. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

Anna Deavere Smith

#14. Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

Wayne Shorter

#15. Successful people ... focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

John C. Maxwell

#16. People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Seth Godin

#17. Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Ajahn Brahm

#18. Deal with people from whom you can learn

Baltasar Gracian

#19. I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for - more than I could learn from books alone.

Dean Koontz

#20. Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports

Cathy N. Davidson

#21. Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

Ehab Atalla

#22. Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Idries Shah

#23. The people knew then that Greg wasn't a monster, just a hungry animal.

KayeC Jones

#24. Make sure people learn and grow from mistakes, and that they share that learning. But, don't accept the same mistake twice. Only make new mistakes.

Phil Dourado

#25. People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning ...

Laura Riding

#26. The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

May Sarton

#27. There's a vast world beyond the tiny fragment that each of us inhabits, and going out into it is the only way to understand other people, their cultures and religions: you can't travel and have the sorts of experiences we were having without learning something from the interactions involved.

Ryan Pyle

#28. I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

Lorde

#29. My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.

Karrine Steffans

#30. Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your owns. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.

Aria Adams

#31. Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

Penn Jillette

#32. Never think that you know everything and you do not have anything to learn from your people.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

Douglas Alexander

#34. Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

Felicity Jones

#35. The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Iggy Pop

#36. If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

John Gallagher Jr.

#37. The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.

Seymour Papert

#38. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#39. And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Duane G. Carey

#40. I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Brene Brown

#41. If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.

Paul Hawken

#42. People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

Bryant McGill

#43. As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

Akiva Goldsman

#44. I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

Zainab Salbi

#45. 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.

Picabo Street

#46. I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.

Kimberly Novosel

#47. Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

Andy Lally

#48. There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

Auliq Ice

#49. Learning from other people is what music is all about.

Neil Young

#50. People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

John C. Maxwell

#51. The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

Dolores Huerta

#52. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.

Julie K. Norem

#53. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Ramakrishna

#54. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Atul Purohit

#55. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

Auliq Ice

#56. You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.

Taylor Brown

#57. You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.

Evan Peters

#58. If you want to learn, focus 95 percent of learning from the best in your industry, craft, or discipline. If you want to teach, focus 95 percent on the people who are not the best to learn how to help the 95 percent who wants to learn.

Ben Tolosa

#59. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

A.J. Darkholme

#60. When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Twyla Tharp

#61. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.

Henry Jenkins

#62. We learn from education, experience and people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.

JD Era

#64. The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#65. People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Malcolm Turnbull

#66. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.

Fiona Apple

#67. Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Samuel Johnson

#68. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.

Kevin Allen

#69. I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#70. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Auliq Ice

#71. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#72. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.

Jonathan Margolis

#73. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Scott Weiss

#74. The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

James Altucher

#75. The people who drive us nuts often change us most.

Auliq Ice

#76. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives

Frank Healy

#77. In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

David Liss

#78. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#79. Anybody who forces people to change their beliefs, they are not a teacher. Learning should come from understanding properly, not from being forced.

Carla Power

#80. I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

Bradford Winters

#81. People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

Ashly Lorenzana

#82. I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Marguerite Moreau

#83. Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Pico Iyer

#84. People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them

Christina Grimmie

#85. The Christian who, by God's grace, learns to confess the Lord Jesus in circumstances which might normally be calculated to silence him, is a Christian whose life is a tremendous challenge to other people.

Alan Redpath

#86. Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it
or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.

Elise Valmorbida

#87. Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

David Blunkett

#88. Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Bill Cosby

#89. We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.

Nike Thaddeus

#90. Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

Brian D. McLaren

#91. We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

Andy Hargreaves

#92. The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. It's

Mark Manson

#93. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#94. It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.

Auliq Ice

#95. I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

Simon Cowell

#96. Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur

Carrie James

#97. To be a good writer, become a good listener.

Cynthia Briggs

#98. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.

Auliq Ice

#99. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway,

#100. Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?
startling, unexpected, unknown?

Virginia Woolf