We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

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?

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I like school and I like learning.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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!

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.