#ear

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#i #new #new york #new york city #ten

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#give #heart #life #living #must

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#career #get #hello #how #i

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#knocks #learn #life #most #you

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#cure #salt #sea #sweat #tears

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.' ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#better #book #cannot #could #economists