I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13 and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison lifting weights becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex which I'm doing all through the United States so that may come up just before Christmas.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
And initially a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table and no matter how hard I tried I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue an upper palate teeth and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large complex government departments.
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
Writing is learning to say nothing more cleverly each day.
I had been here five years already training very hard learning about the systems the shuttle the station systems. But everything really became real when I started to work with them.
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem but television is a little different because we shot those shows the whole way through.
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that and really getting an education on it I think it was part of the process of it learning about it and trying to lick it.
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music so it was good for me.
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
You see that is it with music you never stop learning.
Well until this very day I'm still learning.
Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me I like writing songs that move me and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really really heavy music.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness so is absolute bliss.