Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.”
“You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.”
“You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).”
“You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.”
“You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!”
“You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.”
“You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.”
“You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.”
“You learn to accept your own reality”
“You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.”
“You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.”
“You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.”
“You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.”
“You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.”
Source: A glimpse of glory
“You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.”
“You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.”
“You learn to feel it less, child; or you learn to love other things.”
Source: Uprooted
“You learn to handle the big moments in life by practicing on the little ones.”
“You learn to judge your friends for who they are.”
“You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out”
“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”
“You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.”
“You learn to let go and you do not worry about the result. You have confidence in the outcome, and you start to see the synchronicity that is always organized around you.”
Source: Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles
“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
Source: After You
“You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.”
“You learn to love by loving.”
“You learn to love mistakes once you realize you learn faster with them.”
“You learn to move on without the people you love.”
Source: Lunar Park
“You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.”
“You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.”
“You learn to read people by the way they act ... When people shy away from Doug, I think, Oh, they have so much to learn. You see, the disabled person has no problem interacting with them. They're the ones with the problem.”
Source: Extraordinary Kids: Nurturing and Championing Your Child With Special Needs
“You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.”
“You learn to run by running.”
“You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner”
“You learn to say goodbye to places, to keep them in your heart and go on. Over the hills and a great way off.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
“You learn to tuck it into your coat pocket.
Like lint.
Like keys.
It follows you to grocery stores and funerals
and lazy sunday afternoons.
Some days it’s light,
like a paper cut.
Some days it eats your breath.
But no one notices.
You laugh anyway.
You pour coffee.
You say “I’m fine”
because explaining it
feels like bleeding for no reason.
Grief, when invisible,
grows teeth.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“You learn to write by doing it.”
“You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.”
“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”
Source: The Clan of the Cave Bear (Enhanced Edition): Earth's Children, Book One
“You learn to write by writing.”
“You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.”
“You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.”
“You learn what they teach you,' Xaden says to the first-year, his voice taking a hard edge. 'Keep what you know but recite whatever they tell you to.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.”
“You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.”
“You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”
Source: Football for Young Players and Parents
“You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.”