I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.
Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Other Mother: You may come out... when you've learned to be a loving daughter!
Mr. Myers: I hope we are not to be deprived of the learned and stimulating company of Sir Wilfrid?
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
