Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.
I'm still learning to love myself.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Before the first xx record, I pretty much exclusively listened to electronica. Now, I listen to anything. I think the most inspiring thing is just learning more about more and more different kinds of music and becoming a fan of so many different types and so many different genres.
I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
I enjoy learning technical details.
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world.
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.
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.
When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
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.
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.