#learning

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead. ↗

— Austin Kleon

#creativity #inspiration #learning #life #success

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. They don't hypnotize you with bright objects and repeat the same words over and over, handing out little treats when you finally say "potty" or "wawa." It got to the point where I'd see a baby in the bakery or grocery store and instinctively ball up my fists, jealous over how easy he had it. I wanted to lie in a French crib and start from scratch, learning the language from the ground floor up. I wanted to be a baby, but instead, I was an adult who talked like one, a spooky man-child demanding more than his fair share of attention. Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change my goals. I told myself that I'd never really cared about learning the language. My main priority was to get the house in shape. The verbs would come in due time, but until then I needed a comfortable place to hide. ↗

— David Sedaris

#language-learning #change

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations. ↗

— Chad Hugo

#anything #audience #beliefs #develop #different

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

#hang in there #her #i #i think #just

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#had #i #idols #in the past #learning

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#better #comfortable #getting #getting better #go

The failures and successes are necessary for learning. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#learning #necessary #successes

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#eastern #heart #learning #literature #poetry

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ↗

— Sam Keen

#finding #imperfect #learning #love #perfect

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cooks #experience #foundation #getting #great