#earning

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. ↗

— Richard Price

#chance #fly #how #i #i do

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#ago #around #broke #country #different

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#allowing #articles #bee #feel #finished

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#growing #happy #i #i can #i love

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#did #enough #good #i #in my opinion

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#best part #learning #making #movies #part

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#because #different #different players #doing #each

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#been #communities #high #high schools #into

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography. ↗

— Christina Milian

#always #been #choreography #doing #had