Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, ‘You’ve got such a pretty face; why don’t you lose some weight?’ Over the years I’ve...

As novices, we think we’re entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

A person who truly values his own and others’ good deeds besides the great original words that heed to take care of all, only perhaps knows what he actually needs in life to lead his...

I finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I’m glad that I’m not in politics.

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I’d done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

You know, one thing I’ve learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that’s what I’m doing as secretary of defense.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It’s just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the...

We’ve all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we’ve learned from the European experience.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up...

I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn’t know how to put...

How could we have learn a better way of doing things, if we had never made mistakes?

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I’ve learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive – and it seems to be working for me.

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can’t sustain for four straight hours.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

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.