Learning Technique Quotes

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Math makes sense when you apply it to projects.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

I'm a guy that, I like to learn by seeing things.

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.