Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.
Only through suffering do we learn
I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it. 'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.
Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
Live and learn, or you don't live long.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.
I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.
You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.
I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role. Sometimes it's practical research, meaning if I had to write shorthand, I'd learn how to write shorthand. Or if I have to know how to dance a certain way, I would learn that. And then there's just research of talking to people similar to the characters I'm playing. And there's stuff that I just feel is inspiring, whether it be music or a painting or a photograph. I've used a lot of Nan Goldin's photos in the past to inspire me. I use certain paintings and pieces of music.