#learnin

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #comic #course #did #fame

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#astonishing #children #conditions #education #fact

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#am #around #awhile #be grateful #been

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#bursting #churchill #could #determination #devious

If you desire ease, forsake learning. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#ease #forsake #learning #you

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#go #hurricane #learning #lot #mobilize

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know. ↗

— Joe Namath

#continue #enough #going #how #journey

We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible. ↗

— Tom Conway

#go #learn #learning #much #possible

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#break #business #came #changes #decided

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#communities #concerned #deliberately #efforts #fell