Learned Quotes

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

I have learned to delegate.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.