Neena Gupta Quotes

I learned a lot from my father.

I've learned a lot from my parents.

My role models have kept on changing.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

… the action of natural selection upon Man has ... been essentially diminished through the operation of social conditions

Because human nature evolved in an era before collective learning accelerated, we are all fitted to living in a world that does not change much after our formative years.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.

My parents are definitely my biggest role models.

I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.