Top 385 Learnt Quotes

I used to wear these big shapeless clothes and ended up just looking like a potato in a sack. I’ve learnt now to accentuate the bits that I’m happiest with. That’s probably my waist – a lot of my clothes go in at the waist and emphasise my hips, which I’m very proud of.

I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

Obviously it is well documented that I didn’t love the 800m when I started out. But I, er, learnt to appreciate it.

I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

I can speak Cantonese, but I can’t speak about fashion – I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don’t know the right word – it can be very hard to explain things.

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

I have matured as a player and learnt to perform under different situations.

I don’t think there will ever come a time that I can’t learn from my parents, but there’s something wonderful about getting to the age where you can role-reverse and share exciting and interesting things that you have learnt, too – even better when it’s a shared passion.

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I’d learnt guitar or piano.

I don’t read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I’ve never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

You can’t control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you’re going to get photographed. Whereas if you’re at home, walking down the street you probably won’t. It’s something I’ve learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

You know, one of the things I’ve learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it’s tough.

School is about who you know, but I think it’s a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.

I’ve learnt I can compete with the best in the world.

We’ve all had relationships; I’ve had them in my past, and I don’t look back on them and think, ‘Ah, that was a mistake.’ I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

I was doing it the amateur way, doing everything myself till ‘Naalaya Iyakunar.’ They said, ‘You need crew members‘; they insisted on having proper production values. So I learnt a lot about making films for that show.

Chiki Sarkar edited ‘Mrs Funnybones,’ and she is a ruthless but kind editor to work with. The only lesson I learnt during this process was to say, ‘Yes, Prime Minister,’ and re-write.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

I’ve been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.

I’ve learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn’t sound quite so rough.

It was only in ‘Khadgam’ that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

I always used to want everyone to like me, because it used to hurt so much when people made snidey comments or gave me bad reviews, but I’ve learnt to deal with it.

I guess I’m lucky I learned quite young not to really care what people say. I’ve learnt young to take a stand if I feel like something’s wrong.

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I’d become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I’ve raced with him, but he’s now retired. He’s a really good role model and someone that I’ve learnt a lot from.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival… I learnt all those things from my dad.

I learnt so much at Coventry – I was playing as a regular at 17, most weeks. And that’s something that left me in good stead.

The big things that I’ve learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.

I’ve learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it’s mostly a reflection of themselves.

I have made an honest attempt in ‘Drohi.’ Thanks to the support from the producer Mano Akkineni and the lessons I learnt from Mani sir, the film has come out well.

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory – I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn’t. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

When I launched my channel, I felt I was ready to do this. It’s not that I had learnt everything – because as an artiste you never stop learning, but I was ready to put out my voice in the world.

I’d gone through a lot of ups and downs and learnt from a lot of experiences as a young player joining Everton and playing under pressure.

I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!

To be honest, the Nidahas Trophy has taught me too many things. Actually, I learnt to how to stay neutral after that.

I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of ‘Beyond The Clouds,’ and it will be a life-long learning for me.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I’m supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I’ve learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn’t standing up for myself and I wasn’t caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

I have learnt a lot from my brother and he too has learnt a lot from me. It has been a wonderful journey for both of us. We convince each other all the time with our view points and finally work as a team and not as individuals.

I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

Sadly, I’ve learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry – I did an interview with a magazine once, and the journalist quite openly said they wouldn’t put a black person on the front cover because the magazine wouldn’t sell.

I started driving when I was really young, at the age of 15-16. It just came naturally to me because I learnt it on my own by observing others. Of course, I was never allowed to drive until I was 18, but I would park my parents’ car at every given opportunity.

You evolve with each and every film you do. In every film that I did, I learnt something or the other, and I am constantly learning and hopefully becoming better.

But I like Harry Kane’s robustness and where Harry Kane’s come from as well. He dropped down into the lower leagues and learnt his trade on loan.

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

After completing ‘Aadum Koothu,’ I was assigned to act with Cheran again for ‘Mayakkannadi.’ I learnt a lot working with him.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don’t know.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, if I want to do something, I go ahead and do it. I think I learnt that from my dad.

I played Ram in ‘Ramayan’ for two years and I learnt to be a good human being from that character.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I’ve never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

I was there when Gordon Brown basically was taking over – so right in the middle of that transition. It was fantastic; I learnt a lot.

Yes, I remember as a child, I would potter around my mother in the kitchen and want to participate in everything she was doing. I have learnt most of my cooking from her. I also used to irritate her with a lot of questions.

I trained for a month and learnt all the basic moves at a wrestling school in Amritsar, Punjab. Wrestling is pretty easy.

I learnt French in school and can already speak English.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I’ve calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

I never really learnt from anyone. I just spent a lot of time at home, knocking things out. It has been interesting going into proper studios, working with people who know everything. But I find it doesn’t hinder me.

Bad things written about me do bother me and affect me, but then I have learnt to take it in my stride. I have also learnt to keep quiet about certain things.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learnt from them.

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

My sons are my friends, too, and they have introduced me to new technology and new sounds from around the world. I have learnt a lot from them.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

When films looked a little difficult I did two TV shows and learnt a lot. I even did modelling in between.

I can’t take a break from acting but I’ve learnt to work my way around films and devote time to my music career.

I’ve learnt that there’s absolutely no difference in Telugu and Hindi industries. Everything is almost identical. The only difference is that Hindi films have a wider release.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

I’ve never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

As an actor, I have learnt and understood a lot about Kavya since I heard the role for the first time and I feel there’s so much to take in and grasp every day.

To be very honest, I owe it all to TV, it has made me what I am today. I’ve learnt the craft from it.

Something I have learnt from my past trips is, however tired you are, make sure you make the most of the moment and the place you are in. The regret of missing out on things kicks in later on.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven’t learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn’t be on the boards. That’s absolutely what it’s all about.

I learnt to do bicycle kicks watching Robinho on the television.

I think sometimes I have been drawn into trying to be too aggressive too early. I have learnt that I can give myself time.

On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that’s how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot – the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I’m doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he’s younger than me.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

During the shooting of ‘Manthan,’ I lived in the hut, learnt to make cow dung cakes and milk a buffalo. I would carry the buckets and serve the milk to the unit to get the physicality of the character.

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence – after that, I didn’t fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I’m fine now.

The one important lesson that I have learnt in my life is that embrace life as it comes.

You never know why a film gets accepted and why it doesn’t. I have learnt to just go with the flow.

A man can’t pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it – or rather I invented it – on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.

I have worked with brilliant people, so it has been a great journey and learnt a lot from them.

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

I don’t have an MBA from Harvard Business School. I learnt everything on the job.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Going to Goa was a rite of passage for me, because it’s where I learnt that you could mix fish with really strong flavours.

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

From every coach that has coached me I have learnt something.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I’ve learnt to zoom out again. Because if I’m not actually feeling it, there’s not much point making it in the first place.

I’ve learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.

I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.

I learnt to keep my acting subtle.

Most of what I’ve learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.

You’re never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There’s a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I’ve learnt not to take everything too seriously.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I’m not ashamed about my life anymore, because I’ve learnt from it.

‘Hollyoaks’ is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That’s certainly an experience you don’t get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I’m not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don’t need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn’t, there’s a lesson to be learnt.

I’ve learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I’ve been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there’s always someone who’s got a story about him.

Abhishek Chaubey has improved my craft, as I learnt so much on set.

Why do our kids need to be protected from flu? Isn’t that something only for the cold western countries who have long, cold, below-zero winters? That’s what I thought until I learnt that India’s tropical weather facilitates circulation of viruses around the year, unlike the West, which sees a peak only during winter.

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

I always liked performing. I learnt to sing, play the piano and dance. I was good at academics too but I was interested in extra-curricular activities. My parents encouraged me.

I’ve learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I’ve learnt about how you can be multitasking – and sometimes other people see that you’re multitasking. And that’s not very nice for them.

I have learnt a lot from the Indian team.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives – things we’ve learnt since childhood that we don’t even consciously realise are going on.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

I’ve read every Madonna biography. I’ve also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can’t be scared.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask‘ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.