Things I've Learned Quotes

• 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've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

  Maya Angelou

  Yoga, Heart, Rainy Day

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• I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Heart, People

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 06, 2013

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• I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, I've Learned, Open Heart

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• I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Heart, Decision

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

  Andy Rooney

  Giving, Desire, I've Learned

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• I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

  Emilie Autumn

  Naked, Done, Way

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• I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

  Andy Rooney

  Done, I've Learned, I Have Learned

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• The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

  Hoda Kotb

  Spiders, I've Learned, Life Goes On

  Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

  David Levithan

  Wish, Want, I've Learned

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Talent, I've Learned, Owners

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• One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.

  Gerard Butler

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My music is just fresh. Everybody say it's a breath of fresh air because it's not like the normal Houston sound you would hear. I am from Houston and I use that same slang and I carry myself the same way as a Houstonian and I'm a Houston dude born and raised, but the music is a lil bit different due to the things I've seen and the things I've learned and put that into my music.

  Short Dawg

  Air, Houston, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

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• One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Kids, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

  Jon Anderson

  Years, Giving, Venture

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• One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Long, President

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 10, 2015.

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• I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Support, Ensemble, I've Learned

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• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

  Laini Taylor

  Appreciate, Brain, Wish

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• ... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Two, I've Learned, Hundred

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• I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Men, Long

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

  Randall Munroe

  Long, People, Giving

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• One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Children, Pride, Faces

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