William Camden Quotes

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

People are more easily induced to do, and do more easily, what they are already used to; but people also learn to do things new to them.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.