#earned

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. ↗

— Michael Arad

#accept #any #apprehensive #architect #changes

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#art #half #learned #more #only

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#argue #disagree #hanging #hearts #hollywood

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #experience #greater #happiness

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#emphasized #game #how #jordan #learned

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#always #childhood #deep #embedded #feel

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#anything #haven #learn #learned #meaning

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ↗

— Fred Allen

#back #case #college #day #got

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#adherents #any #candidates #claimed #class