I Have Learned Quotes - Page 9

• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

  Moshe Sharett

  Our Generation, Israel, Deceit

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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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• 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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• 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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• The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

  Robert Thurman

  Time, Believe, Compassion

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• I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

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• It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

  Ann Romney

  Perfect, Looks, May

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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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• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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• Listen, I have been educated.
  I have learned about Western
  Civilization. Do you know
  What the message of Western
  Civilization is? I am alone.

  Eileen Myles

  Civilization, Messages, Educated

  Eileen Myles (2016). “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014”, p.138, Profile Books

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• It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Order, Discipline

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• If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

  Ward Connerly

  College, America, Race

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• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Life Is

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• Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Missing, Twigs

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

  Miranda Kerr

  Instinct, Should, Guts

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Inspiration, Zest

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• I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we tend to make judgements when we find out information about people and situations. In order to bring a character to life, though, I find that I cannot judge her or I won't be true to her.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Character, Order, Judging

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• I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

  Andy Rooney

  Doe, Facts, I've Learned

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• I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Children, Grateful

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• One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Party, Shameless, Spineless

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• I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

  Francis Frangipane

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

  Andy Rooney

  Time Heals, I've Learned, Love Heals

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