Vera Lynn Quotes

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.

I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice.

I try to learn as much as possible about so many different things in order to be able to talk to everyone.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.

You just shouldn't be spending your summer watching TV.

I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!

For an artiste to grow, for a person to grow, you have to learn. A learner cannot afford to have an ego. Learning can never stop. If it does, then it is death.

I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.

Every minute of every day, we should be challenging ourselves to grow intellectually and to stay curious about the world.

I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've always wanted to continue to learn.

A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.

I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel or stuff like that and learn something new. I think once you've gone through such a long stage of learning one thing, you're not as well-rounded as you'd like to be.

There's always new things to learn and new ways to do things. My eyes and my ears are always open, and I'm always looking for advice.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.