Quotes About Learning Theory

#1. Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.

Iain Pears

#3. My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...

Alexander Kotov

#4. The place I belong...Maybe it did exist. I was too stupid and stubborn to notice it, but what I really wished for back then was here. Why do I always see these things after they're done and gone?

Kentaro Miura

#5. The Chinese market is very, very unique.

Niklas Zennstrom

#6. Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Assata Shakur

#7. It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#8. The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#9. I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

James Blake

#10. he came into this world infected with wanderlust

Ellen Hopkins

#11. Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

David Simon

#12. It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

Isaac Asimov

#13. ... experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.

Daniel Keyes

#14. Focus on miracles brings selfishness.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#16. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.

George E.P. Box

#17. The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Alfie Kohn

#18. There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#19. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

Doug Stanhope

#20. I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

Louise Hay

#21. Time is now. Live a fuller life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

Seymour Hersh

#23. The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.

Stephen D. Krashen

#24. Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Edward Carpenter

#25. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.

John Maynard Keynes

#26. All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

Terry Gilliam

#27. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Criss Jami

#28. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.

Dale J. Stephens

#29. I am, by nature, a guitar player ... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Hunter Hayes

#30. Experience by itself teaches nothing ... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

W. Edwards Deming

#31. When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

Louis Leterrier

#32. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Joyce Rachelle

#33. Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Albert Bandura

#34. Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Dean Martin

#35. Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted them in theory
Now it's "the Latin" in me.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#36. Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Baltasar Gracian

#37. I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Lionel Hampton

#38. There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#39. But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.

Malcolm Gladwell

#40. The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

J. D. Trout