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“I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.”

Trying Steps Worry Outcomes

Author:Steve Wozniak

Source: IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor

“I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.”

World School My Own Just Live My Own World

Author:Willard Wigan

“I learned nothing while I was in school.”

School

Author:Lorraine Bracco

“I learned of the cruelty of man to his fellow man, and it did not come as any great surprise.”

Cruelty Regency Era Frankenstein Young Adult Thriller Chris Priestley

Author:Chris Priestley

Source: Mister Creecher

“I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.”

Hate One Thing

Author:Kevin Garnett

“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.”

Years Past Pieces One Thing Advice Taught Scripts Thirty Say Anything Thirty Years De Niro

Author:Cathy Moriarty

“I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.”

Ifs World Two Fun Causes One Thing Fame Contribution

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.”

Men Years Hate Wise Fool Appreciate Hate You Appreciate You

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

Knows Pain Voice Victory Patience Perseverance Dedication Dedication And Perseverance

Author:Anthony Hamilton

“I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.”

People Ifs Materials Offensive Offended Subjective

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.”

Believe Helping Winning I Believe Levels Fields Mets Ethics Workers Hardest Work Ethic Playing Fields

Author:Chris Rock

“I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.”

Eye Cameras Columbia

Author:Gene Tierney

Source: Self-portrait

“I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.”

People Thinking Heart Enough Moments Stories Waiting My Own Becoming Clicks Shutters Story Writers

Author:Eudora Welty

“I learned quickly that everything in the military that involves paperwork or money is more difficult than it needs to be. You have to be persistent and thorough, and even then, you'll probably be told "no" a few times and be forced to start the process over again. Finding help is nearly impossible. With a disinterested grimace, everyone will tell you that someone else is who you need to talk to until you realize no one knows the answer to your question or cares enough to find it. At that point, you have two choices: give up or be a pain in the ass. I chose the latter. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.”

Persistance Military Benefits Military Paperwork

Author:Karie Fugett

Source: Alive Day: A Memoir

“I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.”

Ifs Understanding Students Listening Perception Discredit Discredit You

Author:Tim Gunn

“I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.”

People Important Would Be Responsibility Careers

Author:Rick Pitino

Source: Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

“I learned quickly that once Los Angeles decides to sprinkle you with its stardust, it shakes so generously you glitter.”

Los Angeles Stardust Proverbial

Author:Alex Brunkhorst

Source: The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine

“I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.”

Trying Country Bigs Girl Force Cities Havens Mets Gay Folks Cousin Big Cities Right Girl

Author:Tina Fey

Source: Bossypants

“I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.”

Inspirational Made Laughing Laughter

Author:Art Buchwald

“I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.”

Looks Book Answers Students Strange Graduates Equipment Measurement Graduate Students

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”

Two Real Mouths Ears Two Ears And One Mouth

Author:Quincy Jones

“I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.”

Can Do Lessons Smart Blue Valuable Repeats Clue Valuable Lessons

Author:Steve Burns

“I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.”

Ifs Firsts Together Mother Night Father Learning Clear Respect Tables Clean Caring Dinner Motherhood Arise Kitchen Dry My Sister Dishes Womanhood Request Sister

Author:Robert D. Hales

“I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.”

Government Running Difficult Presidency

Author:Lloyd Cutler

“I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're ignorant think it because they can see the edges of what they know, which you can only see when what you know is tall enough to stand on, and take a look around.”

Wisdom Experience

Author:M.R. Carey

Source: The Book of Koli

“I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.”

Young Roles Deeper Singers

Author:Renee Fleming

“I learned so many things from Louis C.K., but the most impactful thing was witnessing his work ethic. He works harder than anyone I've ever been around in comedy. And he takes risks and doesn't dwell on what might be perceived as failures.”

Might Comedy Risk Hard Work Ethics Harder Work Ethic Work Harder

Author:Ted Alexandro

“I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.”

Littles Machines Strings Melody Songwriting Motto Miniatures Ukulele

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.”

Persons Has Beens Might Humanity Reading Levels Saws Judgment Accounts Scripts Disgusting Shelter Homeless Might Have Been

Author:Paul Bettany

“I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.”

Studios Touring Gigs Joining Seattle Fusion

Author:Kenny G

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

Records Singing Nelson

Author:Wanda Jackson

“I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.”

War Real Stars

Author:Patrick Lussier

“I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”

People Honesty Listening Openness

Author:Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.”

World Feels Actors Sex Felt Treats Accepted Bombs

Author:Sylvia Kristel

“I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.”

Games Basketball

Author:Pat Summitt

“I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.”

Author:Judith Light

“I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.”

Years Art Done Bits Teacher Contact Performing Classical Music Noon Great Teacher Performing Arts

Author:Jon Gordon

“I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”

Ifs Knows Kind Shows Enemy Lessons Forgiving Distance Corners All Kinds Mess Show Business Farming Nashville Invaluable Forgive Your Enemies

Author:Willie Nelson

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.”

Done Bigs Jobs Process Steps Lessons Importance Valuable Cooperation Bipartisan Small Steps Valuable Lessons Legislative Process

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.”

Firsts Ideas Patterns Attraction Strings Good Ideas Going Out Jumping Getting Laid Jumping In Attracted To Someone Failed Relationship

Author:James McAvoy

“I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.”

Ifs Want Reality Asks Trust Ask Me Not Afraid Trust No One

Author:Diana Ross

“I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't it more that is required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth through power.”

Ifs Believe May Stills America Values Speak I Believe Voice Liberty Land Danger Birth Lonely Raises Dare Things To Do Patriot Noticing Speak The Truth

Author:Teresa Heinz

“I learned something, when you have Nazi uniform on, why people were so evil and used their power. Because it's a very powerful uniform, it's like boots and black and silver and skeletons everywhere, on your hat, on your shoulder.”

People Evil Black Powerful Silver Nazi Very Powerful

Author:Udo Kier

“I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.”

Firsts Home Speak Language Half My Family Speak English

Author:Odette Annable

“I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.”

Gymnastics Trainers

Author:Ashley Scott

“I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters. From that point on, I migrated by the 1950s into anarchism, increasingly emphasizing decentralization. Also, I made the all-important step of bridging my social philosophy with ecology. I did that in 1952 and went on to write a whole series of books developing an anarcho-ecological approach.”

Way Writing Made Important Book Different Philosophy Whole Social Steps Approach Series Developing Ecology Typical Anarchism Ecological Marxist Decentralization

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.”

Made War Turns Individual Water Environment Air Land Healthy Protect Making Peace Stewards Air And Water Healthy Society

Author:Robin Lim

“I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.”

Ifs Want Long Walks Conversation Incredibles Calm Combination Bridges Long Walks

Author:Seth Godin

“I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.”

People Giving Real Helping Sacrifice Investing Real Friends Real Friendship Making Sacrifices

Author:Eric Thomas

“I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners. I remember doing a reading, and my part was kind of small that week, and I commented on it, and the next week, they cut me out of the show. So I learned that you never ask questions. In TV, you always assume you're going to be fired.”

Giving Kind Remember Reading Cutting Week Assuming Collaboration

Author:Illeana Douglas

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