Learning Obstacle Quotes

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.