I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.
You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.
I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.
I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.
They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.
If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.
I enjoy cooking, but I don't know... I just don't think I have enough skills to teach other people.
If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.
I've played with some of the best players in the world, and I've loved every minute of it.
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.
We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.
