Charlie Parker Quotes

With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

My family has always valued my education.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Education is not so important as people think.