#lear

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#care #celebrate #clear #criticize #everything

I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?" said Granny. "Bugger all," said Granny cheerfully. "Then we'd better bloody well escape right now. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#learning #prison #humor

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#getting #healthy #inevitable #interested #learn

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#clearly #justify #must #nature #rather

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#nuclear #psychosis #tv #imagination

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved. ↗

— Eden Ahbez

#greatest #greatest thing #just #learn #love

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#mentoring #teacher #inspirational

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#inspirational #learning #reading #writing #inspirational