#earn

Do you know how diamonds are made?" She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent. He didn't wait for her to answer. "They're made of a single element - carbon. But, over millions of years, the carbon had to undergo incredible pressure-something like a minimum of four hundred pounds per square inch-and cook to at least seven hundred degrees. The amazing thing is that if there's not enough pressure or heat, instead of a diamond, plain old graphite is made. Imagine that-instead of the world's most indestructible and beautiful thing, you get just graphite. Something to make pencils with. Sure, pencils are nice and useful. But they aren't diamonds. ↗

— Karen White

#learning-to-breathe #beauty

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#beauty #character #devoid #fragrant #gratitude

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#garbage #jargon #learn #mental #must

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn. ↗

— Randy Travis

#class #fact #first #first class #had

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#curly #different #dryer #even #experimented

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#completely #earn #i #i am #independent

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#feel #hunger #i #i feel #i feel like

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#everything #hanks #hannah #i #learned