#earning

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#distinguishing #ignorance #kind #learning #studious

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value. ↗

— Anne Rice

#learning #life #love #beauty

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#afternoon #because #exercise #health #i

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#biggest #education #experiences #first #got

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#like #merely #out #pocket #private

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #learning #politics #relegion #spirituality

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#audience #awards #earn #earning #get

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#beauty #desire #elegance #fresh #innovative

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#kind #learning #me #period #really

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ↗

— Confucius

#learning #lost #perilous #thought #without