I Have Learned Quotes - Page 4

• One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Games, Careers

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.144, Pan Macmillan

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• I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Mean, America

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.293, Pan Macmillan

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• I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

  Frank W. Boreham

  Secret, Life Is, Longing

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• Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Hug, Touch Someone

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• Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

  James Broughton

  Poetry, Magic, Literature

  James Broughton (1990). “Special deliveries: new and selected poems”, Broken Moon Pr

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• I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Pain, War

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• I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.

  Robert Wagner

  Pain, Lying, Play

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• Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

  Johnny Weir

  Inspirational, Trust, Broken Heart

  Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Mother, Jesus

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

  Otto Scharmer

  Keys, Data, Our Society

  "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Powerful, Selfish, Years

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Trust, People, Littles

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

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• Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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• I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

  Marlo Morgan

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Enrichment

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• Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

  Steve Martin

  Inspiration, Years, Moments

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  Anthony Perkins

  Travel, Adventure, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Parent, Missing

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Mistake, Teaching, Learning

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• I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

  Lois Lowry

  Years, Ideas, Looks

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

  Piper Laurie

  Life Changing, Life Lesson, Long

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• I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

  Roz Savage

  Attitude, Wind, Weather

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• Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.

  Bernie Siegel

  Letting Go, Children, Done

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• My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

  Mike Holmgren

  Football, Book, Nfl

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