Learning Quotes

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

~ Kevin Bacon

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

~ Steve Harvey

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

~ Michael J. Fox

Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.

~ Bob Iger

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

~ Richard Branson

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

~ Shahid Khan

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

~ John W. Gardner

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

~ Satya Nadella

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

~ Scott Weiss

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

~ Tim Harford

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

~ Pierce Brown

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

~ Natalie Portman

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

~ Sherry Argov

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

~ Ian Dunbar

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

~ Emma Thompson

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

~ Kristin Armstrong

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

~ Michael Spence

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

~ Ashley Scott

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

~ Cassie Steele

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

~ Frank Ocean

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

~ William Allingham

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

~ Adam Driver

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

~ Michael Dirda

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

~ Joshua Roman

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

~ Linda Ronstadt

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

~ Mitt Romney

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.

~ Maz Jobrani

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

~ Common

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

~ Sebastian Thrun

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

~ Sherry Turkle

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

~ Roger Mcguinn

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

~ Dixie Carter

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

~ Karlie Kloss

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

~ Burt Ward

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

~ Herb Ritts

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

~ Earl Nightingale