I Quotes
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“I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.”
“I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.”
“I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.”
“I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.”
“I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.”
“I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.”
“I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.”
“I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.”
“I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me”
“I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.”
“I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility.”
“I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.”
“I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.”
“I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.”
“I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.”
Source: City of Stairs
“I learned very early on that a human is not merely comprised of only one thing. We are two parts that make up the whole.
We have our conscious, which includes our mind, our soul, and all the intangible parts.
And we have our physical being, which is the machine that our conscious relies on for survival.
If you fuck with the machine, you will die. If you neglect the machine, you will die. If you assume your conscious can outlive the machine, you will die shortly after learning you were wrong.
It's very simple, really. Take care of your physical being. Feed it what it needs, not what the conscience tells you it wants. Giving in to cravings of the mind that ultimately hurt the body is like a weak parent giving in to her child. "Oh, you had a bad day? Do you want an entire box of cookies? Okay, sweetie. Eat it. And drink this soda while you're at it."
Caring for your body is no different from caring for a child. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it sucks, sometimes you just want to give in, but if you do, you'll pay for the consequences eighteen years down the road.”
“I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.”
“I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.”
“I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.”
Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
“I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.”
“I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.”
“I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.”
“I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.”
“I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.”
“I learned very soon to get along by myself.”
“I learned very young that there's a currency in making people laugh. I may well have been gay as the day is long, but at least I was funny. I added value.”
Source: Stay Another Day
“I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.”
“I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.”
“I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.”
Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
Source: West with the Night
“I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.”
“I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.”
“I learned what it was like to lose yourself. To feel the fragments flying off you. As if your soul has unhitched itself from your body and is flying away on a piece of string like a balloon. Lost in the clouds. You think, I only have to catch the end of the string. But though it hovers within sight, you cannot grasp it. You try and try. And then there comes a time when you are too tired. You no longer care. So you say: Let it go. Let me just fall down here on the soft grass and go to sleep.”
Source: Ancestor Stones
“I learned what love is from loving you.”
“I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.”
“I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."”
“I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.”
“I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.”
“I learned who I am and who I’m not, what I’m worth and who is not.”
“I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.”
“I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.”
“I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
often look at me
with a look that whispers, Liar.”
Source: The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig
“I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.”
Source: Gossip: A Novel
“I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.”
“I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.”
“I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance