#learn

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #faith #finding-joy #growing-up #hard-times

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#better #down #go #hear #him

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#easy #effortlessly #i #learned #me

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#came #carried #case #casualties #comes

Live,love and learn ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#learn #life #live #love #trust

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#acting #acting class #anthropology #class #courses

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#earning #learning #life #success #wish

This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus, in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#education

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #learning #miss #throw

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn