I Have Learned Quotes - Page 20

• Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

  Susan Orlean

  Animal, Water, Chickens

  "Chicken Chores" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Exceptional

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• I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

  David Low

  War, Silly, Games

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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 from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  I've Learned, Instinct, Guts

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• I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

  Harold MacMillan

  Agreement, Matter, Negotiation

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• Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Skins, Aging

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.77, Random House

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• Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

  Billy Joel

  Style, Weakness, Results

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• I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

  Tom Ford

  Fate, Destiny, Voice

  "Tom Ford's Home on the Range". Interview with Lisa Eisner, www.gq.com.au. January 25, 2012.

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• Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Discovery, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.162, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Two, Two Things

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• The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

  Norman Cousins

  Editing, Years, People

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• I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

  Martha Wainwright

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Girl, Player

  "What Are the New Secrets to Getting Ahead? Inspiring Ladies Spill to Glamour's 2012 Top 10 College Women!" by Lauren Iannotti, www.glamour.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Teenager, Independent

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• I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

  Margaret Cho

  Strong, Bullets, Able

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• How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

  Dorothy Dix

  Fear, Dark, Worry

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• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  Frances Farmer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Thank You

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• The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

  Allyson Felix

  Trust, Important, Lessons

  Interview with Mary Fairchild, www.thoughtco.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Blessed, Track

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• Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

  Paul Getty

  Observation, Rhetoric, Can't Change

  "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.

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• I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Serenity, Tools

  "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

  Mel Gibson

  Stronger, Bitter, Makes You Stronger

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• For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Today, Used, Stage

  Source: www.mlive.com

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