I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
My favorite thing that I'm learning, in particular, is that the type of love between an immigrant parent and their child growing up in America is a particular nuanced type of love.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
Everything is a learning experience.
Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.
I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.
Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
Intrinsic motivation is one of learning's most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.