I've Learned Quotes - Page 8

• People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

  John Stossel

  Independent, Self, People

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• If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Judgment, I've Learned

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• You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.

  Alicia Keys

  People, Lessons, I've Learned

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• I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, People, Matter

  "Five Joan Rivers quotes working women should live by" by Harriet Minter, www.theguardian.com. September 05, 2014.

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• Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

  Bill Gates

  Soccer, Kids, Talking

  "More Than a Goal: End Polio" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Benefits, Way, Privacy

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• I've learned that sometimes love is not enough. You can have a soul mate and be madly in love with that person, but it's not necessarily enough. I think you have to have personalities that mesh well. You have to be the yin to their yang. You also have to be open to figuring things out together and communicating even when it's the last thing you want to do.

  Jessica Simpson

  Love Is, Thinking, Personality

  "Why We Love Jessica Simpson". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 7, 2014.

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• I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Thinking, Wish

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• I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.

  Lore Sjoberg

  Party, People, Political

  "Alt Text: Join the Inactivist Party and Make Your Indifference Heard" by Lore Sjoberg, www.wired.com. May 27, 2011.

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• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  Nate Berkus

  Humanity, Lessons, Want

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• I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.

  Drea de Matteo

  Crazy, School, Kids

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• What I've learned, more than anything, as a young actor who has been in the business for 10 years, is just to be around guys and girls, like Ron Perlman, Bill Lucking, Kim Coates, Tommy Flanagan, Katey Sagal, who have been in this business for a very long time, and to learn what to do and what not to do from them, every day, and to see how they navigate through their Hollywood life.

  Theo Rossi

  Girl, Years, Hollywood Life

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• I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

  Zoe Helene

  Ayahuasca, Onions, Levels

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• It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As I get older, I find a greater sense of self-confidence. I've learned that it's fine to not try to be anything else but myself.

  Jessica Biel

  Fun, Moving, Self Confidence

  "Jessica Biel: Being Engaged is Absolutely Amazing". Interview with Cindy Pearlman, www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

  Taylor Swift

  Chemistry, I've Learned, Enough

  Taylor Swift Talks "Relationship 'Deal-Breakers,' Admits 'I've Never Had a Perfect Fit With Someone'" by Alyssa Toomey, www.eonline.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

  David Bowie

  Age, Relax, Aliens

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• I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

  Twyla Tharp

  Order, Next, I've Learned

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, Culture, Shapes

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• I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

  Rodney Dangerfield

  I've Learned, Can Do, Angry

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  I've Learned, Instinct, I Have Learned

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• If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Littles, I've Learned, Holding Back

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• I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Fall, Men

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• I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting. 
  (on the Los Angeles Galaxy)

  Cobi Jones

  Team, Fighting, Usa

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• I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Ideas, Speaking Up, Shy

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

  Eric Balfour

  Actors, I've Learned, Things I've Learned

  Source: collider.com

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