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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

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

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

The only way round is through.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.