Quotes on I Have Learned

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.

Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.