Robin Hobb Quotes

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

The game taught me the game.

I didn't expect myself to be perfect my first season because no one ever pulled me aside and said "This is how you walk."

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.

You can't play everything you learn, anyway. You just try to bring it all on-board and use what's useful. In the end, it's your job to own the role and, in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.