Learned Quotes

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.