I’ve been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

I’ve learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

If I hadn’t been a designer, I’d have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

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

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain...

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali;...

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight...

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

The treasure of life, learning.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved...

I learned how to dance every move of ‘Billie Jean.’

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

I’m very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

I think the most important thing that I’ve learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you’re doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you’ve learned it.

I’ve learned to be more accepting of myself. I’m 37, not 18, and I’ve got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all...

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we’re very distrustful of anger. We’re not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American,...

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I’m like, ‘Really? I came to grad school; I’m going to do the ‘Respect for Acting’?’ And I realized the...

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I learned the power of ‘no.’ No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say ‘yes, yes, more, more.’

I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and...

When you do something unusual, the audience doesn’t 100 percent know what you’re up to in the beginning. And if you’re doing a character comedy, they haven’t learned the characters yet.

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men’s prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you’re singing about....

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

I’ve been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the...

Nobody black had learned anything from the ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people.

When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, ‘Grace, you’re a Cylon, she wouldn’t do that.’ And later,...

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I don’t know if it’s a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I’ve learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do...

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I think ‘The Sunset Tree’ is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

I’ve been a model for 15 years, and I’ve been on ‘Top Chef’ for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I’ve learned a thing or two about how to camouflage...

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on ‘Smile,’ I learned to adapt to color on my end.

I’ve learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.