#lear

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. ↗

— William Hague

#hoped #iraq #out #turned #war

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#education #go #i #learning #loved

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#having #hope #i #learnt #next

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intervention #invitation #learning #mistakes #experience

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#clubs #collect #dinners #discuss #firearms

Without tact you can learn nothing. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#nothing #tact #without #you

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#comes #cowards #dark #day #dreading

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#continues #i #impact #learned #life

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen. ↗

— Tony Goldwyn

#also #anything #better #decisions #directing