Learned Quotes

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

I mean, it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.