#lear

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal. ↗

— Sally Field

#deal #did #great #great deal #i

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#i #learn #learnt #movement #skill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #am #being #i #i am

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. ↗

— John le Carré

#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #being #i #i do #learn

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#arms race #bounce #go #going #make

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

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#because #clear #felt #first #first time

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#activities #could #did #early #engaging

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being yourself #chaos #learned #rejecting #you