#earning

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization. ↗

— Beryl Smalley

#specialization #age

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. ↗

— Mark Jenkins

#learning #old #young #age

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Boredom is for the selfish. ↗

— Patti Digh

#boredom-and-attitude #keep-learning #moving-forward #selfishness #attitude

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#earnings #family #family members #half #members

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#any #down #enough #i #kind

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#anybody #anything #colleges #constitutional #constitutional amendment

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. ↗

— Todd Rokita

#economist #forward #i #i am #knee