Learned Quotes

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.