#lea

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ↗

— Idries Shah

#materialism #pleasure #pride #religion #sufi

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#career #get #hello #how #i

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#knocks #learn #life #most #you

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. ↗

— David Dinkins

#cleaning #cooking #grandmother #here #mother

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. ↗

— Jim Dine

#attitude #best #clearly #drawing #i

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there. ↗

— John Dingell

#charge #course #leaving #made #mistake

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

#harp #insensible #itself #like #mouths

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. ↗

— Roy E. Disney

#becomes #clear #decisions #easier #making

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#live #others #teach #then