Learned Quotes

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.