Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that’s for sure.
What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you’re going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don’t hone your craft.
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
This is the thing that I think we’re all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people.
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
I’m learning to believe that my epilepsy doesn’t disbar me from being considered attractive, so if I think I look palatable in A&E I’ll damn well Instagram it.
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it’s to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it’s well-received and lives in somebody else.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
There’s no way I can justify my salary level, but I’m learning to live with it.
In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state’s online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.
We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I’m just now learning. But it’s not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it’s not that they try to make you compromise your art. That’s not the problem.
If I am through learning, I am through.
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
I’d think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
I’ve learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I’ve learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
I think every role you do prepares you for the next one. Of course, ‘Nashville’ has been, and will continue to be, a huge learning experience for me as an actor. It’s something that I grew a lot doing.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn’t from school, it was the ‘hood. The influences of the ‘hood are very powerful.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn’t realize they were learning.
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
We’re working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we’re doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying to stay active.
You only stop learning when you quit.
Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I’m writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
