Steve Young Quotes

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I would like my kids to study well.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I mean I've been around a lot of places and there's been a lot of guys that - every single team that I've ever been on, I really try to take advantage of the older veterans that are there, try to learn about their process, how they take care of their bodies, how they study, how they watch film.

If a teacher goes, 'Do you guys want an easy test?' You're going to say, 'Heck, yeah.' The less you've got to study, I'm going ace this test.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.