To Learn Something New Quotes

“To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.”

— J. Jack Halberstam

“Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new”

— Jonah Lehrer

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”

— John Burroughs

“The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.”

— P.W. Catanese

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

“Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)”

— Diana Rose Morcilla

“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference. Yes lets you stand out in a crowd, be the optimist, see the glass full, be the one everyone comes to. Yes is what keeps us all young.”

— Eric Schmidt

“Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.”

— Ariel Gore

“Every performance is an opportunity to have something new or to learn something new.”

— Reggie Watts

“I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.”

— Anna Popplewell

“I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.”

— Lykke Li

“I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.”

— Matt Taibbi

“I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.”

— Isabel Lucas

“When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.”

— Teri Hatcher

“People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.”

— Travis Bradberry

“Every five years, I decide to learn something new.”

— Jean Pigozzi

“When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world
the world of fixed traits
success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other
the world of changing qualities
it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.”

— Carol S. Dweck

“I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.”

— Don Shula

“Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.”

— Joe Wright

“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn. Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.”

— David Sanborn

“Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.”

— Harvey Mackay

“The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.”

— Alain Ducasse

“A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.”

— Amy Neftzger

“It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.”

— Rashida Jones

“So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.”

— Cheech Marin

“Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything.”

— Sondra Radvanovsky

“To learn something new every day is still exciting!”

— Ed Koch

“I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.”

— Leila Janah

“Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.”

— Zoe Saldana

“We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other
we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.
And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other's heart holds, is to learn something new ...
Faith.”

— Amie Kaufman

“The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.”

— Lindsey Kelk

“Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.”

— C. JoyBell C.

“Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.”

— Steve Backley

“My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't.”

— Tara Hunt

“My goal on every job is to learn something new, because I get bored so easily,”

— Nina Kostroff Noble

“A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.”

— Paul Halmos

“Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated.”

— Clinton Anderson

“Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.”

— Dale Evans

“I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.”

— Justin Verlander

“I am not here for me
I am not here to promote my ego
I am here to serve the Great Spirit
To be a voice for those afraid to speak
To be movement for those who are stuck
I am here to reveal a mystery
To learn something new about myself”

— Holly Near

“I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.”

— Anousheh Ansari

“Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.”

— Barack Obama

“What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?”

— Tom Peters

“I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.”

— Busy Philipps

“One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.”

— Harvey Mackay

“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

— Colin Farrell

“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”

— Karl Marx

“A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.”

— Robert Kiyosaki