#learn

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#am #amp #annoy #drum #drums

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it. ↗

— Michelle Casto

#learn #learned #soul #teaching #change

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#hardest #learning #practice #training #transformation

Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro! ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#learning #change

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#brother #frank #friendship #had #him