Top 100 I Learned Quotes
#1. Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
Derek Luke
#2. I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
David Bowie
#3. I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Laila Ali
#4. What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
Greg Lake
#5. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
Liam Neeson
#6. In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.
Leila Sales
#7. I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
George Bernard Shaw
#8. Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.
Bryan Hayes
#9. I learned that good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
Jocko Willink
#10. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca
#11. I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
Eli Broad
#12. I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself.
Anton DiSclafani
#13. Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.
Rumi
#14. I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.
Charles Lindbergh
#15. I learned more about the poor Mrunas' social life from listening to Mrs. Merriweather: they had so little sense of family that the whole tribe was one big family.
Harper Lee
#16. He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.
Thomas Rayfiel
#17. One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Vanilla Ice
#18. I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#19. In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.
Judy Holliday
#20. I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#21. What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
Jeff Bridges
#22. I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually accept that you are worthless.
Ishmael Beah
#23. I learned love and heartbreak all at once.
Bonny Capps
#24. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
Robert J. Sawyer
#25. Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother's knee and other low joints,
Ross Macdonald
#26. It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.
Patricia C. Wrede
#27. My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
Matthew Modine
#28. And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe? ... I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think. (p. 31)
Sabina Berman
#29. At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.
Angie Thomas
#30. Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Quentin Tarantino
#31. I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#32. Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
Frederick Lenz
#33. I have to say one of the lessons I learned is to always be prepared.
Wendy Starland
#34. One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
John Cage
#35. This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#36. I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Louise Brooks
#37. I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
Margaret Haddix
#38. I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.
Alex Flinn
#39. I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.
Dr. Seuss
#40. I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
Tamra Davis
#41. I learned that a sense of privacy doesn't have to depend on walls and doors. At least not external ones. Two people could sit in a room and read or work separately without ever breaking the silence. It's an ability to put up walls in your mind, so no one can get through.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
Gayl Jones
#43. I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#44. I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard MacDonald
#45. I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.
Vik Muniz
#46. My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
Mila Kunis
#47. Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.
Alice Hoffman
#48. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
Mikhail Lermontov
#49. Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.
Joyce Rachelle
#50. I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.
Anna Quindlen
#51. I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Andrew Solomon
#52. I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.
Charlie Puth
#53. I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#54. In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.
Liz Murray
#55. What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
Mario Andretti
#56. I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
Bill Walton
#57. I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!
Jessica Bird
#58. I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward
#59. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!
Mehek Bassi
#60. But ... as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse
a lot worse
but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.
Nicholas Sparks
#61. I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.
Harvey Pekar
#62. I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.
Jessica Biel
#63. What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.
Joseph Mazzello
#65. I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.
Eudora Welty
#66. But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
John McCain
#67. I didn't kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn't turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn't sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me
Leonard Cohen
#68. I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.
Jane Goodall
#69. Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake - really suffering - I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.
Sarah Vowell
#70. You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
Sean Hannity
#71. Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.
Tim Tebow
#72. I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and I don't think that I would have had the same album if I had just written it by myself.
Bridgit Mendler
#73. As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
John Sununu
#74. One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.
Louis C.K.
#75. I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
Frans Lanting
#76. I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.
Khaled Hosseini
#77. I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
Yair Lapid
#78. I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.
Angie Harmon
#79. I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.
Mark Cuban
#80. I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
Darren Aronofsky
#81. I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'
Tyra Banks
#82. I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.
Lea Seydoux
#83. Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo
#84. One of the best things I learned from my parents was to be HONEST and work HARD!
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#85. I went to kindergarten, I learned how to share with others.
Molly McAdams
#86. I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
Jill Scott
#87. I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer - that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.
Anne Lamott
#88. I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.
Condoleezza Rice
#90. I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
Antonio Banderas
#91. I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
Randy Johnson
#92. I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
#93. My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people ... but somehow try to pull it out.
Herb Brooks
#94. I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.
Hilary Duff
#95. leave. I learned I would be going to jail no matter what and that my confession had helped to ensure it would be for much longer than if I had followed my lawyer's simple instructions and said nothing.
Cleary Wolters
#96. When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.
Eric Cantona
#97. I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
Odette Annable
#98. I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it.
Kevin Sampsell
#99. slowly, mile after mile, I unwound the bandages, let my wounds, my scars, crust over. They didn't heal. But I learned to live with them, as you do. Learned how to move, talk, ride, sing, so that the pain wasn't visible
Kelly Gardiner
#100. Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.
Jennifer Weiner
