All Quotes

I learned that when you're lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent - you're just trying to harmonise everyone's contributions.
‐‐ Mark Romanek

I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.
‐‐ Estelle

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.
‐‐ Gordon Bethune

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.
‐‐ Christine Lagarde

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.
‐‐ Mike Epps

I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that's stupid because I don't go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.
‐‐ Demi Lovato

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
‐‐ Brenda Ueland

I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
‐‐ Maya Rudolph

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
‐‐ Larry David

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
‐‐ Chris Toumazou

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.
‐‐ Sharon Bolton

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
‐‐ Olivia Culpo

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.
‐‐ Adam Beach

I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'
‐‐ Tony Fadell

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
‐‐ Allen Funt

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
‐‐ Travis Barker

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
‐‐ Prince Charles

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
‐‐ Jim Leyland

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
‐‐ Sam Walton

I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
‐‐ Bette Midler

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.
‐‐ Ginni Rometty

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.
‐‐ Juan Manuel Fangio

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
‐‐ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
‐‐ David Almond

I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
‐‐ Judith Wright

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
‐‐ Alex Rocco

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.
‐‐ Colin Angle

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
‐‐ Sting

I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family's bodies.
‐‐ Kendra Wilkinson

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.
‐‐ Steve Albini

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.
‐‐ Alan King