Learned Quotes

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.

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.