Examples of use of I Learned the Hard Way
1. In one, the actor–turned–politician says, "I‘ve had a lot to learn, and sometimes I learned the hard way.
2. So, I learned the hard way that, in Britain, life is a game where the unforgivable thing is to be serious.
3. He says he was repeatedly turned down in job interviews at law firms after his 1'74 graduation. I learned the hard way that a law degree from Yale meant one thing for white graduates and another for blacks, no matter how much any one denied it,‘‘ Thomas writes. I‘d graduated from one of America‘s top law schools, but racial preference had robbed my achievement of its true value.‘‘ Thomas says he stores his Yale Law degree in his basement with a 15–cent sticker from a cigar package on the frame.