I Have Learned Quotes - Page 13

• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Morning, Father, Lying

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

  Jim Lehrer

  Long, Kind, Debate

  "The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer". Interview with Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

  L. Frank Baum

  Fame, Wisps, Regard

  "The Making of the Wizard of Oz". Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1998.

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• I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

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• I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest.

  Puff Daddy

  Moments, Enjoy, Feels

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• I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

  Andy Murray

  Winning, Tennis, Guy

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• If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

  Ward Connerly

  College, America, Race

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• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Life Is

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

  Connie Stevens

  Animal, Garden, Healthy

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

  Hayden Carruth

  Grateful, Expression, Objects

  Hayden Carruth (1989). “Tell Me Again how the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, People

  Ernest J. Gaines (2007). “Mozart and Leadbelly”, p.27, Vintage

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• The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

  Robert Thurman

  Time, Believe, Compassion

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• I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

  Hafez

  Christian, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we tend to make judgements when we find out information about people and situations. In order to bring a character to life, though, I find that I cannot judge her or I won't be true to her.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Character, Order, Judging

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• Listen, I have been educated.
  I have learned about Western
  Civilization. Do you know
  What the message of Western
  Civilization is? I am alone.

  Eileen Myles

  Civilization, Messages, Educated

  Eileen Myles (2016). “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014”, p.138, Profile Books

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• Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Baby, Heart, Different

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• I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

  Daphne Zuniga

  Art, Imagination, Filling In

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• I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

  Andy Rooney

  Done, I've Learned, Things I've Learned

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• I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

  Francis Frangipane

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

  Naveen Jain

  Humility, Successful, Journey

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2016

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• 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.

  Jet Li

  Use, Ifs

  "Jet Li... A hero to behold". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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