#studying

Ah," Gary said dreamily. " 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later--the only real free time you get here is what my honored sire chooses to give you, when he thinks you have earned it." "And he doesn't give it to you at night," Alex put in. "He gives it to you when you've been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep-- ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#free-time #studying #work #dreams

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. ↗

— David Chalmers

#cognitive #compatible #consciousness #going #i

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines. ↗

— Joan Collins

#certain things #cocktail #four #give #had

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#immerse #just #listening #making #music

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. ↗

— Kip Winger

#acoustic guitar #classical #classical guitar #could #got

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#learning #lines #sat #studying

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.' ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#computer #could #editing #home #i

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#because #brain #feel #french #had

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's. ↗

— Dean Inge

#mind #object #other #own #people