Learned Quotes

• What was the nature of the answers, the solutions, that Jonah caused us to develop? They all had one thing in common. They all made common sense, and at the same time, they flew directly in the face of everything I’d ever learned. Would we have had the courage to try to implement them if it weren’t for the fact that we’d had to sweat to construct them? Most probably not. If it weren’t for the conviction that we gained in the struggle—for the ownership that we developed in the process—I don’t think we’d actually have had the guts to put our solutions into practice.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Practice
  • Solutions
  • Develop

• The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Home
  • Forget
  • Learned

• The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Doctor

• I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Human Beings
  • Human Skill

• I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.

  

  Ed Figueroa
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learned

• I actually learned about Cyborg through the cartoon shows, and I think that's how most people learn about Cyborg.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • People
  • Actually
  • Cartoon

• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

  

  Tacitus
  • Love
  • Learned
  • Fame

• Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Canada
  • Trick
  • Kills

• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actors
  • Experiences
  • Creates

• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Way

• Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Body
  • Cancer
  • Take Care

• Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Learned
  • Resistance

• I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Learned
  • Decisions
  • Appreciate

• I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Teaching

• Both Pasquale and Rino turned out to be surprisingly good dancers, and we learned from them the tango, the waltz, the polka, and the mazurka.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Learned
  • Dancers
  • Mazurkas

• I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

  

  Etta James
  • Songs
  • Learned
  • Rage

• He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Learned

• 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
  • Safe
  • Cloud

• I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

  

  Erin Cahill
  • Power
  • Because
  • Camera

• And there those who knew how to dance danced and those who didn’t learned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dance
  • Learned

• I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Job
  • Risk
  • Actors

• But I’ve learned that I’m stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Better
  • Luck
  • Stronger

• They learned to shut down their once overwhelming emotions, and, as a result, they no longer recognized what they were feeling. Few of them had any interest in therapy.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Learned
  • Emotions
  • Therapy

• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

  

  Moliere
  • People
  • Quality
  • Learned

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