If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
I think it’s possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you’ve realized something, it’s too late.
I have forgotten much that I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.
I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
He who wisheth one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing: — one doth not fly into flying!
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
Either one does not dream at all, or one dreams in an interesting manner. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion: — either not at all, or in an interesting manner.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
