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.

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

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

I give the children education.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

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.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.