Listen if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts not react with your heart.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business family relations or life itself.
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird obscure things in the refrigerator.
I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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.
I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
But the beauty of Einstein's equations for example is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired.
Strength of character may be learned at work but beauty of character is learned at home.
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy it was just a given. I learned to take each day each mission as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case each job as it comes.
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing to be keep myself more under control.
Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.