Edward Carpenter Quotes

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.