I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
I'm UCB trained - I came up learning about game, which is a really big part of the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. They teach you about game, and game in a scene is what makes the scene funny. And oftentimes, it's the character - this is really improv dorky stuff.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.
If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
They set great store by their gardens. . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention. . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.