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When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Holly Near
Mistakes
,
Blessed
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
Bill Bowerman
Change
,
Good
,
Teacher
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
Brendon Burchard
Smart
,
Successful
,
Himself
Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.
Mark Wahlberg
Work
,
Experience
,
Different
I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.
Mark Wahlberg
Love
,
Time
,
Process
You learn on every film so much.
Andrea Arnold
Film
The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
Edie Falco
Learned
,
Common
,
Audience
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
Tina Weymouth
Love
,
Sometimes
,
Failures
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Piers Anthony
Education
,
Sex
,
Before
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner
Men
,
Live
,
Die
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
Best
,
Before
,
Between
This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.
Bill Murray
Secret
,
Actor
,
Watching
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich
Great
,
Teacher
,
Today
I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Fear
,
Control
,
Thought
I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
Adam Levine
Marriage
,
Good
,
Study
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Kathleen Turner
Yourself
,
Father
,
Present
With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.
Nikki Reed
Love
,
Hard
,
Maturity
You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
David Cronenberg
Human
,
Philosophy
,
Seen
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Dennis Ritchie
Advice
,
Write
,
Language
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
Emil Zatopek
Thought
,
Young
,
Times
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
Nothing
,
Known
,
Except
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
John Cale
Future
,
Thinking
,
Done
I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.
Michelle Williams
Wrong
,
Opinions
,
Ask
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
Peter McWilliams
Give
,
Before
,
Ask
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Peter McWilliams
Mistakes
,
Show
And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
Eddie Murray
Important
,
Win
,
Made
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Angela Davis
Leadership
,
Youth
,
Older
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
Arabella Weir
Few
,
Failing
,
Teachers
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
Arabella Weir
Positive
,
School
,
Live
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
William Godwin
Child
,
Importance
,
Eminent
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