Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

In life, we all learn from everyone.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Experience is a great teacher.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn, and the better actor I will become.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.