Learned Quotes

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.