I Have Learned Quotes - Page 22

• I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Docks, Bitterness, I've Learned

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• But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

  Emily Giffin

  Life, Mean, Loss

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With”, p.388, St. Martin's Press

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• Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

  Patricia Briggs

  Women, Giving, Demand

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• Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

  Alan Paton

  Pain, Kindness, Secret

  Alan Paton (2015). “Cry, The Beloved Country”, p.193, Random House

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• I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.

  John Hodgman

  Moving, Eye, Forever

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.192, Penguin

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• These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Freedom, Book

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.108, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Climbing

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• Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

  George Harrison

  Hurt, Shoes, Squash

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• I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

  Keith Miller

  Serenity, Firsts, Quiet

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• I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Rocks, Age

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• I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

  Leila Khaled

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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• I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Dark, Light, Needs

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Apr 13, 2016

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• I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Enough

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• Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.

  Edwin Land

  Years, World, Definitions

  "A Talk with Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 115, No. 7 (p. 50), April 1, 1975.

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• Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  God, Prayer, Islamic

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• If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

  Johann Lamont

  Men, Things In Life, Wells

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• As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Facts, Sometimes, Reaching

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, New Day, Feelings

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• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

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• I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Needs, Looks

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• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

  Indra Nooyi

  Moving, Organization, Leader

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Life Changing, Live Life

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

  Al Pacino

  Shy, Firsts, Language

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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