What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her – especially if that is what she desires.

Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they’ve crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn’t get learned.

I’ve learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn’t move.

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, ‘What can I do to help?’

maybe in some cases, people see us fall and crack, see us as a failure. We gotta live with it, i live by our own code we shouldn’t be ashamed if we fall, for every...

I’ve learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don’t think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is – I’ve learned...

I learned to live half alive without you

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it’s you can never go back.

I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven’t been allowed to engage in yet.

The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

If I don’t have anything to sacrifice, I don’t have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed...

I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

I’ve tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father’s house, all those things I didn’t realize I was learning and that I never knew I’d be so grateful for....

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I get very nervous when it’s quiet, because I think it’s dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O’Connor. She was a huge influence.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

I learned the first night that IHOP’s not the place to order fish.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

I’m a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we...

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That’s how I became tough – I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.

Never lie to your mother. That’s like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance – you felt that...

Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them...

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don’t, because I can’t accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the...

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

If I’d learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can’t be a man, write like one.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn’t good for my throat. I’ve been working on all of...

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious ‘oooh oooh’ girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I’ve learned over the years that that’s not so attractive, so I’ve...

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I’ve learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.