One lesson I learned from ‘The Monstrumologist’ was never to get too attached to your own characters. That’s harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book – which coincided with...

My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I just feel I’m on a different page from the reviewers, so I’ve learned not to care about them too much.

I always learned to be philanthropic… to give back.

I had learned of Gertrude Stein’s bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it’s only you. To an extent, you’re all alone.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the...

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

That’s the thing I’m learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don’t change it, it don’t get changed.

I’ve got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

When I was small, playing NBA Live, that’s how I knew everyone in the NBA. That’s how I learned about the players.

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I’ve really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother...

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

What I’ve learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged – sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team...

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I’ve learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

It’s been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I’m far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I have learned that track doesn’t define me. My faith defines me. I’m running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when...

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn’t win, I just felt horrible.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I learned that people don’t buy anything from unknown stores.

I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger...

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super...

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

I’ve got to where I’ve always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I’ve learned not to care what other people think. It’s happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I’ve learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn’t really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

Until ‘Scrubs,’ I didn’t have a business manager. I learned everything on my own – and I learned the hard way.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she’d get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That’s...

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I’ve learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.