#earns

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#crete #dreams #greece #happiness #jack-r-kearns

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#field #learns #much #poem #prosper

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#best #bottom #every #how #learns

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#being #difficulty #doctor #get #horizontal

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forever #head #heart #learns #new

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#book #consulting #dirty #few #game

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#certain #child #comes #company #father

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#every #finally #gets #how #know