I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?