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

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.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I love being busy.

Change in all things is sweet.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Knowledge is power.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

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.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

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.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.