#earn

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ↗

— James Dean

#boo #character #chickens #cows #develop

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#learned #like #taught #writing

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#being rich #between #deal #difference #earning

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. ↗

— James Dyson

#failure #learn #never #success #you

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#body #control #experience #i #learned

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#big #big leagues #calm #calm down #down

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something. ↗

— David James Elliott

#beautiful people #believe #hairdos #interested #lead