I've Learned Quotes - Page 33

• What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

  Horatio Sanz

  Perfect, Want, I've Learned

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2007.

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• What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

  Kellan Lutz

  Thinking, Keys, Design Process

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• My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, I've Learned, Joyful

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• I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Cat, World, I've Learned

  "Jerry Lee Lewis: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2009.

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned

  Colleen Haskell

  I've Learned, Offers

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• I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Want, Benefits

  "Getting There: Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker". Interview with Erin Mershon, www.politico.com. October 1, 2014.

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• Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

  Norman Foster

  I've Learned, Building, Something New

  "Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

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• The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.

  Claire Messud

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage

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• It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

  Tom Brady

  Talking, Years, Play

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• I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.

  Patrick Stump

  Long, Littles, Internet

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Past

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Leslie Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

  Megan Mullally

  Years, People, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

  Skylar Grey

  Powerful, Hard Times, Feelings

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.

  Demetri Martin

  Self, Years, I've Learned

  Source: www.maximumfun.org

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• All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.

  Alicia Keys

  Interesting, Being Different, Special

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• I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

  Robby Benson

  Needs, Tables, Artistic

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• Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

  Debi Thomas

  Sports, Team, Doctors

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• I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

  James MacDonald

  Heart, Criticism, Becoming

  "Each next risk is the biggest one". Interview with Mark Driscoll, theresurgencereport.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

  Alice Fulton

  Reading, Mean, Views

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

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• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Thinking, Bills

  "Moss on Kaepernick: ‘I really just compliment his leadership’". Interview with Eric Branch, blog.sfgate.com. December 12, 2012.

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• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Talent, I've Learned, Owners

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• I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.

  John Edward

  Guarantees That, Scary, Connections

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• I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

  Suze Orman

  People, Mind, Speak

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.

  Suze Orman

  I've Learned, Encyclopedia, Versions

  Source: www.npr.org

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