#earning

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airline #create #else #experience #find

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? ↗

— David Byrne

#attitude #beats #fundamental #hip-hop #i

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

#carries #circle #corrupt #cry #expression

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#beyond #comfortable #earning #i #i do

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#attain #costs #degree #eminent #head

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ↗

— Cher

#absolutely #ahead #around #corner #first

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#big #big fan #come #dream #fan

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#best #best part #energy #going #huge

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago. ↗

— David Knopfler

#could #curve #decades #doing #duck