The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave. – Gregory David Roberts
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. – Henry Kissinger
I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots. – Ger Duany
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy. – Harri Holkeri
I think it’s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships. – Hope Solo
Regarding Jose Mourinho, I hope I can learn a lot from him – he is a coach with a fantastic record. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The caliber of actors I’m getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor. – Graham Phillips
I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they’re going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn’t have a post-war plan in Iraq. – Harold Ford, Jr.
American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it’s full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that. – Helen Mirren
Sometimes you surf well and still don’t win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn’t mean much if you don’t have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses. – Gabriel Medina
The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we’ve run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don’t like needful moments and therefore we resist them. – Guy Finley
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding. – Gavin Hood
I don’t want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion. – Grandmaster Flash
I’m always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. – Gunter Grass
To learn something from your data, the forming of a hypothesis lies with the human being, which turns into a query, which becomes a result. The problem is that there are too many queries to make, too many questions to ask. – Gurjeet Singh
It’s lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that’s also interesting. – Harry Lloyd
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies. – Gretchen Rubin
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. – Henepola Gunaratana
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. – Hans Haacke
You can practice to learn a technique, but I’m more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. – Herbie Hancock
I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself. – Helene D. Gayle
I don’t know why, but I’m continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world’s population can go online to learn, to create and to share. – Gary Kovacs
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day. – Heinrich Boll
I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat – and beaten well – and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team. – Gary Speed
Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I’m scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It’s hard to put into words, I guess. – Hilary Duff
I think it’s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. – Hope Solo