Andy Rooney Quotes

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

For me, it's all about keeping an open mind; if you are always learning then you are always improving.

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.