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" I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction. " - Siri Hustvedt

" Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it’s a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way – and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things – is one of the best ways to learn. " - Nicholas Negroponte

" Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc. " - Dennis Brown

" I had a pretty steep learning curve in film – as I’m still learning. " - Theo James

" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they’re sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. " - Sydney Pollack

" The more you practice and study, the better you are… so I still practice and study all the time. " - Cyndi Lauper

" Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks. " - Summer Sanders

" Summertime, and the reading is easy… Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February. " - Michael Dirda

" The thing about music is it’s not an obscure pursuit, it’s a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast. " - Grimes

" You don’t learn from good people – they’ve found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: ‘Oh dear, I’m not going to do that.’ " - Helen McCrory