Learned Quotes

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.