"We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing."

-- Frank Smith

#Knowing Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
“I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.”

Source : "SHELLEY QUITS / Secretary of state says controversies over fund raising, use of federal money and his volatile temper damaged his office's 'ability to function effectively'" by Christian Berthelsen, Vanessa Hua and John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2005.
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.”
“Delivered from the galling yoke of time.”
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

Source : Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
“There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.”

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