Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
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 a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.
My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.
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 learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!
I learned a lot from the Holmes fight. I learned about styles and the pressure. I'm more prepared now.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
I have learned to make a lot of effort and sacrifice for this sport, and now I can say it's paying me back. So it is important to always show determination and effort on the pitch.
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
