I Have Learned Quotes - Page 24

• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Angel, Not Caring, Differences

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• You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Hero, Eye

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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• I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

  Sandi Bachom

  Adversity, Have Faith, Hope And Faith

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• In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Loving Life, Two, Achievement

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks

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• Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  Abba Eban

  Humility, Golf, Futility Of Life

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• If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Years, Constant

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• I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

  Erin Gruwell

  Teacher, Blessed, Teaching

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• The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Knees

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

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• With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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• I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Needs, Smoke

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

  Edmund Wilson

  Hate, Paper, Fool

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• Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teenager, Thinking, Long

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• Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

  Beryl Markham

  Distance, Clouds, Years

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Blessing, Names, Joy

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• In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in my hands. Give these words to the world and they will be loved and understood by those who already know their truth. The truth doesn't burn. The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it... only these pages will burn. At one with the stars... with the pages and their love... one with everything that is, that ever was or will be. One.

  Richard Bach

  Stars, Heart, Light

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• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Boss, Trying

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• All I have learned, I learned from books.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Enough

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• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Heaven, Hell

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Distance, Ignorance

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

  Leo Burnett

  Writing, Speech, Advertising

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Vision, Done

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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