People Quotes

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

~ Peter Drucker

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

~ Andy Warhol

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

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

~ Christina Grimmie

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

~ Frederick Douglass

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

~ Dermot Mulroney

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

~ Heston Blumenthal

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

~ Albert Bandura

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

~ Robin Williams

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

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

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

~ Cal Ripken

I know I'm likeable, but living with me is different. Yes, I can be charming. That desire to please people and learning what to do to charm their socks off is something many of us do. But you get into a relationship, and the party's over at some point. They see the real you.

~ John Grant

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

~ Max Levchin

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

~ Åsa Larsson

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

~ Martin Rees

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

~ Tyra Banks

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

~ Megan Smith

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything and converse and pick people's brains, and I ask people to do the same. I'm into learning anything new and trying new stuff.

~ Roman Reigns

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

~ Sharon Shinn

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

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

~ Francis Bacon

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

~ Christina Aguilera

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

~ Emma Watson

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

~ Nikki Reed

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

~ Cara Delevingne

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

~ Mike Nichols

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

~ Lauren Bacall

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

~ Bonnie Hunt

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

~ Diplo

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

~ Miuccia Prada

With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

~ Robert J. Shiller

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

~ Dan Pink

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.

~ Mickey Rooney

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

~ Allen Klein

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

~ Billy Campbell

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

~ James Fallows

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

~ Gregory Bateson