Bryce Dessner Quotes

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on.

One of my goals always, when I write music, is that it's not only me sharing my story with the fans: it's also a reminder to myself that, 'Hey, I said this so that I need to grow from it.'

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.