I Have Learned Quotes - Page 12

• It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

  Kathy Ireland

  Journey, Cameras, Modeling Industry

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• I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Sketching

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• What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Self, Impossible, Good Enough

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• I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

  Vincent Cassel

  Acting

  "What I know about women" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

  Jane Jacobs

  Granted, Folly, Examining

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.179, Vintage

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• To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Grateful, Unique

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• If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

  Kristin Hannah

  Love, War, Long

  Kristin Hannah (2015). “The Nightingale”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Traveller

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Clever, People, Way

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• I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

  Bernard Baruch

  Men, Observation, Approach

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

  Claudio Arrau

  Feels, Performances

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• I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

  Edward Klein

  Long, Looks, Enough

  Edward Klein (2013). “The Amateur”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

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• I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, How To Love

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.408, Candlewick Press

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• They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

  Adelard of Bath

  Life, Mean, Thinking

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• I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Editing, Actors, Crafts

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• I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Big Book, Bigs

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• I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

  Anthony Braxton

  Kind, Rough Times

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• Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

  Greg Lake

  Fun, Self, People

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• I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  People, Way, Opinion

  "Leonardo DiCaprio: Kissing a man in J Edgar film was all in a day's work". www.mirror.co.uk. January 17, 2012.

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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  Vince Gill

  Country, Real, Records

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• I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

  Mira Sorvino

  Strong, Roles, Stills

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• As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Betray, Pencils, Picks

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Block, Years, Ideas

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Preparation

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.67, Penguin

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• I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

  Madeleine Albright

  United States, Force, Can Do

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