#earn

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

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#accept #change #fact #how #keeping

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#art #beautiful #concentrated #effort #enough

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough! ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#earn #enough #enough is enough #get #great

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment. ↗

— John Edwards

#forever #i #judgment #learned #lesson

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

I learn the most from making my own mistakes. ↗

— David Fincher

#learn #making #mistakes #most #my own

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ↗

— Robert Frost

#books #i #i am #learn #order

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts. ↗

— John Forsythe

#comes #get #hero #i #learned