Philip Pullman Quotes

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

You have to improve; that's how you develop.

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

Intrinsic motivation is one of learning's most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I've never stopped learning.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

The doer alone learneth.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

You only stop learning when you quit.

One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.