Learning Quotes (page 188)
![Nicholas Sparks quote: "One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes..."](/pic/262289/600x316/quotation-nicholas-sparks-one-of-the-things-ive-learned-in-my-life-is.jpg)
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
Ray Bradbury
![Salman Rushdie quote: "I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the..."](/pic/261911/600x316/quotation-salman-rushdie-i-learned-the-first-lesson-of-my-life-nobody.jpg)
![Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the..."](/pic/261906/600x316/quotation-robert-louis-stevenson-some-day-after-i-am-dead-you-may.jpg)
There wasn't any single moment of bedazzling revelation, it was more of an education process. The more I learned about the nature of addiction, the more I was willing to look at my own behavior and history. And the more I was able to help the people I was in there with, the more it all made sense. A lot of this process came through witnessing the sickness of these people I was in rehab with, for me to see these people and care about them, and to know how slim their chances were of ever...
Anthony Kiedis
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing. You must shovel the walk... and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?
Shel Silverstein
Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over.
That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.
Robert Kiyosaki