#earn

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families. ↗

— George Foreman

#because #bills #boxing #broke #college

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#football #given #haven #i #i do

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admired #age #because #black #boy

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#enjoyment #getting #grants #greatest #knowledge

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#camera #control #crowd #get #gun

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her. ↗

— David Geffen

#business #everything #her #i #learned

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#place #should #speak #time #timelessness

Without tact you can learn nothing. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#nothing #tact #without #you

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#comes #cowards #dark #day #dreading