I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
Alice: You can learn a lot of things from the flowers... Huh! Seems to me they could learn a few things about manners!
I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.
When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.
If you learn how to master yourself, you stand a good chance of learning how to master your job.
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.
