#earned

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#even #face #father #had #i

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#after #i #important #important thing #learned

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#back #behind #blonde #blonde hair #body

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#balance sheets #business #cash #earliest #fact

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#back #benefits #constituents #cutting #earned

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bad #being #compassion #discriminated #ever

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#having #learned #obviously #seen #war

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#fiction #i #learned #lot #morality