I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.”
“I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.”
Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories
“I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.”
“I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.”
Source: Conquistadora
“I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.”
“I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.”
“I learned, having played Marcia Clark, what the value of that is in your life because it can affect everything, every choice you make, the way you deal with a stranger on the street, or your best friend or lover. It's a powerful thing to know yourself and to have the commitment and the courage to let that be your guide.”
“I learned, one, you shouldn't ever quit. And I learned, two, you'll never be able to explain it to anybody”
“I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.”
Source: On Conducting
“I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.”
“I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.”
Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.”
“I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.”
“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
“I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.”
“I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible”
“I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.”
“I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.”
“I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.”
“I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.”
“I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.”
“I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.”
“i learnt anger the way a child
is taught to write their name,
spelt “sorry” before i could read”
Source: Reality
“I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.”
Source: Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography
“I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.”
“I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people”
“I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.”
“I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.”
“I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?”
“I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.”
“I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.”
“I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.”
“i learnt from the autumn leaves, the formula of healing.
every year, they break, fall off the trees and die.
and then again in a few months, they find their way back home.
reborn, living a new life just to die again.
but never did that stop them growing again.
so why can't we humans just live up to them.
fall, get hurt, bear pain but have enough
courage and energy to stand up and fight back again.”
“I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.”
“I learnt in the jungle that there is a great tranquility associated with having nothing of value”
“I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.”
Source: Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
“I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.”
“I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.”
“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.”
“I learnt silence from the talkative”
“I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.”
“I learnt that I am exactly what humanity worships. I am God.”
Source: GUDSKOMPLEX
“I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.”
“I learnt that in teaching young children the concept of number, you should start with the concrete, then move to the pictorial, before finally representing numbers in the abstract. I learnt that children should be encouraged to articulate their processes, and feed back to each other on whether they are right or wrong, and why. And I learnt that this is so children understand number concepts, not just procedures, because (though not only because) the PSLE tests understanding, not just memorisation. As I was chatting to the professor in the car as she gave me a lift to the station, she also expounded on the importance of teacher-student relationships – 'you can't touch their brain until you have touched their heart'.”
Source: Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
“I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.”
“I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.”
“I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.”
“I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.”