"Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game"

-- Will Durant

#Learning Quotes #Player Quotes #Objectivity Quotes

“Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”

Source : "Interview: Tom Hiddleston Talks 'Avengers' Humor,Ddrama, and Where Loki May Go In 'Thor 2' (Exclusive)". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.fandango.com. May 2, 2012.
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
“Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.”

Source : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company
“If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.”
“God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability”
“I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.”
“Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.”

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