In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

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

Experience teaches only the teachable.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.