James Heckman Quotes

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

You keep learning all the time.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Every day you learn something new.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.