Learned Quotes

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.