Quotes about Learning

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.

My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes. I was playing by ear, following along, but it was such an encouraging environment, I couldn't fail. It was all, 'Yeah baby, you sound real good' no matter what you play. It was a great way to learn.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.

When you know better...You do better.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that's ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It's not the thing that matters, it's what that thing opens within you. — Oprah

Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.

Mine is I've learned as much as I can learn doing this one thing. Now I need to move forward. And it happens when I've learned as much as I can learn at that thing. And then something else opens itself.

Every experience is a valuable teacher.

Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.