#earn

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law. ↗

— Leon Jaworski

#absolutely #again #before #constitution #during

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#garden #gives #happiness #i #know

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#attitude #barriers #buddy #i #learned

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#basis #cannot #care #equal #i

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something ↗

— Jamie Zeppa

#inspirational #learn #lesson #life #opportunity

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#affecting #commerce #country #directly #fact

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#arrest #because #before #both #computer