Slow Learner Quotes & Sayings

Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.' — John Wooden

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence. — Steve Prefontaine

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner. — Walter B. Barbe

But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever. — Thomas Pynchon

Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine. — Linda Greenlaw

You only do what is in accordance with your self-image. If you consider yourself shy, you won't be able to start a conversation with a stranger. If you consider yourself a slow learner, you won't think of applying to the top college. — Michal Stawicki

I've got a little baby, I made him ... He doesn't speak, he's 2 ... He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words ... car and map ... I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble! — Michael McIntyre

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?"
Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it. — Charles M. Schulz

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it. — Dan Gilroy

An old soul is nothing but a very slow learner. — James Martin Peebles

You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. — George Orwell

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' — Ben Fountain

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. — Kim Gordon

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is. — Barry McDonald

I thought he should know the truth.
"Some say that I'm a ... well a ..." I hated to say what others teased me mercilessly about... "A... slow learner."
He shrugged as if to indicate that it didn't mean anything to him, but seemed anxious about what to say to console me. Finally, he reached out and touched my hand. "Yeah, but they don't have life mates whose destines are written in the stars." I wanted to groan out loud. I was a slow learner and was to be mated with a vampiric human whose old flame wanted me dead. How was this a good thing? — Terry Spear

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise. — Sheryl Crow

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner. — Patti Davis

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. — Craig Venter

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man ... I could be eating a slow learner. — Lyndon B. Johnson