#studying

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#completely #i #money #refugee #studying

I always started studying with the best intentions, telling myself that today just might be the day it all fell into place, and everything would be different. But more often than not, though, after a couple of pages of practice problems, I'd find myself spiraling into an all-out depression. When it was really bad, I'd put my head down on my book and contemplate alternate options for my future. "whoa," I heard a voice say. It was muffled slightly by my hair, and my arm, which I locked around my head in an effort to keep my brain from seeping out. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#humor #nate-cross #ruby #studying #the-best-option

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#been #doing #i #long #long time

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ↗

— James Dean

#boo #character #chickens #cows #develop

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#answered #away #been #come #cultures

A well rounded education never hurt anyone". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#education-discipline #education-knowledge #education-study-studying #educational-enrichment #r-alan-woods-r-alan-woods

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #schooling #studying #education

Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?” “Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college #colleges #funny #humor #humour

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia #decided #eight #enroll #graduate

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#effect #make #masterpieces #me #otherwise