Johnny Ball Quotes

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

Attending Seattle Central was an awesome experience - it taught me a lot about discipline in a great way.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Few things are as essential as education.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.