Learning quotes

“You screwed up, but you screwed up for the right reasons. You're going to make mistakes, but it's how you deal with those mistakes, that's going to make the difference.”

Chuck Norris - Joshua McCord

“To put your son in a position to care about winning and not to prepare him is wrong!”

Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“He was taken to the east, a great prize, where the war masters would teach him the deepest secrets. Language and writing were also made available, the poetry of Khitai, the philosophy of Sung; and he also came to know the pleasures of women, when he was bred to the finest stock. But, always, there remained the discipline of steel.”

Mako - The Wizard

“When I was young I thought things were simple. Right or wrong. Black or white. And as I grew older, I tried to understand the in-between. The shadows. I tried to see the other fellows point of view. I even imagined Nazis might be human beings. But this afternoon I knew I was right at first. Things are simple. They kill you. You kill them.”
Ralph Morgan - Jan Hanka

“Sometimes what you've learned conflicts with what you know.”
Ned Romero - Frank Redbear

“- Scruno: Economics is a science of man's activities devoted to obtaining the material means for the satisfaction of his wants.
- Limpy: Where'd he learn that? He's absolutely illiterate!”

Ernest Morrison - Scruno
Huntz Hall - Limpy

“- Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here.
- Lester Burnham: I have fast food experience.
- Mr. Smiley's Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago!
- Lester Burnham: Well, I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Anderson - Mr. Smiley's Manager
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“I don't think you know what it means to have rules. You gotta have rules and you gotta have discipline. Now I don't know what it was like in your homes and your homelifes, but in my house with my father, there were rules. And if you didn't follow the rules, there was hell to pay. You had rules and you had discipline. Sometimes it wasn't nice,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Bacon - Nokes

“- Picard: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.
- Anij: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Donna Murphy - Anij

My father was a missionary. I spent the first 10 years of my life in China. There, I learned how to fight as you could imagine. I remember going to my martial arts teacher. He said, "Why you come to me?" and I say, "Ah, to learn how to fight". And he's like, "Oh, so you wanna hurt people, but you wanna be great!". I say, "Yeah, I wanna be great... (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Seagal - Mason Storm

“- Mona Lisa Vito: What the fuck is going on here, Vinny? You fucking up this case or what?
- Vinny Gambini: I explained it to you already, didn't I? It's a procedure. I'm learning all this as I go along. I'm bound to fuck up a little.
- Mona Lisa Vito: A little? You've been thrown in jail twice!”
Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“- Count Dooku: That was brave, boy, but foolish. I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson.
- Anakin Skywalker: I'm a slow learner.”

Sir Christopher Lee - Count Dooku
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker

“The old adage from Santayana, that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, is a lie. There is no history. Everything we are is eternally with us.”
Lili Taylor - Kathleen Conklin

“Haven't you learned by now that history always repeats itself?”
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle

“- Wellman Anthony Santee: Where'd you learn that shit?
- Rita Marek: To protect myself.”

Dolph Lundgren - Wellman Anthony Santee
Kristian Alfonso - Rita Marek

“- Detective Marco: I've never killed anyone before!
- Sir Jeremy Burtom: Well, you''ll have to fucking learn.
- Meistrich: It's really not that hard.”
Matt McGrath - Detective Marco
Alfred Molina - Sir Jeremy Burtom
Campbell Scott - Meistrich

“- Bonnie: No. It'd kill him not to play in the park. He loves it.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It just makes my job harder.
- Bonnie: Then your job's harder.”

Joan Allen - Bonnie Waitzkin
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“Eve never says no to learning!”
Tyra Banks - Eve

“- Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.
- Celine Naville: What?
- Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business.”
Sir Ian Holm - Naville
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville

“- Mary: I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
- Isaac: He was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.”

Diane Keaton - Mary
Woody Allen - Isaac

- Kristy Thomas: Today, using the "BSC" quick study method, you're going to learn about the human body!
- Claudia Kishi: Don't bother. It doesn't interest me.
- Mallory Pike: Does the Baby-Sitters Club interest you?
- Claudia Kishi: It's my life.
- Mallory Pike: Then get interested.

Schuyler Fisk - Kristy Thomas
Tricia Joe - Claudia Kishi
Stacy Linn Ramsower - Mallory Pike

“- Susan Stanton: Isn't that the thing experience teaches you? Not to get burned?
- Henry Burton: Does anyone ever learn that?
- Susan Stanton: Not the best people.”
Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton
Adrian Lester - Henry Burton

“You know what I learned about the world? You do unto others, you eat what you kill and that's what life is.”

Chris Penn - Luke

“- The Fairy Godmother: Who are you?
- Rod Rescueman: My name is Rod Rescueman.
- The Fairy Godmother: And what do I learn from that?
- Rod Rescueman: My name.”
Judith Kahan - The Fairy Godmother
James Cranna - Rod Rescueman

“Self esteem is basic. You learn that on the street.”
Armand Assante - John Gotti