Quotes about Learning
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.
- John Updike
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
- John Wooden
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
- John Wooden
It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.
- John Wooden
Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.
- John Wooden
I had mistakes, plenty, but I had no failures
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden
- John Wooden
Drink deeply from good books.
- John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
- John Wooden
Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.
- John Wooden
No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.
- John Wooden