Learning Something New Quotes - Page 2

• When I finished my college education my agent said to me …'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  College, Thinking, Keys

  "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!

  Jaime Murray

  Meaningful, Sex, Knowing

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Liz, Students

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.59, A&C Black

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• As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.

  Troy Vincent

  Mature, American Football, About Yourself

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• As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Jumping, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Small Numbers, Media, Usa

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

  Lynsey Addario

  Photography, Intimate Moments, People

  Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

  George Pattison

  Atheist, Reading, Pride

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

  Robin Sloan

  Long, Evil, Would Be

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Italian, Night, Hands

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

  Clint Eastwood

  Retirement, Age, Stories

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• I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

  Frank Darabont

  School, Writing, Curves

  Source: collider.com

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• Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Ignorance, Mean, Golf

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Dad, Years

  Source: shadowandact.com

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