I Have Learned Quotes - Page 7

• One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Winning, Years

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• I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

  Erin Hamlin

  Monday, Mistake, Walking Away

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• I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Giving, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.342

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• I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.

  Todd Hido

  Creative, Trying, Done

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• I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Thinking, Self

  Booker T. Washington (2007). “The Story of My Life and Work”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

  Opal Whiteley

  Shadow, Language, Knows

  Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.127, Crown

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• I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

  Kevin Benderman

  Art, War, Hero

  Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”

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• There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t think in terms of boundaries that limit what the market might do. If there is any lesson I have learned in the nearly twenty years that I’ve been in this business, it is that the unexpected and the impossible happen every now and then

  Richard Dennis

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Uma Thurman

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

  Tracy Morgan

  Years, Trying, Want

  "Tracy Morgan Makes the Most of His Sobriety" by Paul Chi, people.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

  Tom Hardy

  Voice, Busy

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• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

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• I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don't go away and they're still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you're going to do something about them.

  James Balog

  Years, Ideas, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Way, Easier, Personal Life

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

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• it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Long, Way

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

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• In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Christian, Spiritual, Journey

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• You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Forget Everything

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• What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Hands, Giving, Speech

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 217), 1895.

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• Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.

  Daniel Dennett

  Fall, Philosophical, Atheism

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Men, Political, President

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• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  Rachel Bilson

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Forget Everything

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• I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

  Andy Rooney

  I've Learned, Shows

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• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

  Saint Basil

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

  Andy Rooney

  Heart, Hands, Needs

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• I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.

  Andy Rooney

  Class, I've Learned

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