I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong....

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy {anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy}...

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: Cold. Others used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: C. The...

If you don't have anything good to say to yourself, don't say anything at all

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to...

The best learners are the best earners.

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

We learn better when learning is a game.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out...

Whether it's a morning routine, or a philosophy or training tip, or just motivation to get through your day, there isn't a person on this planet who doesn't benefit from a little outside help.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

Real experience is knowledge

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two - by - four. I always found listening easier.

"... at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old...

What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.

We were kept busy learning. We had a million facts to remember.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.