Learns Quotes

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.