Learned Quotes

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.