I did stand-up comedy for 18 years.

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”

— Steve Martin

Author: Steve Martin
Category: learning
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I never was good at learning things.

“I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.”

— Manfred von Richthofen

Author: Manfred von Richthofen
Category: learning
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In the transmission of human culture, people

“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”

— Gregory Bateson

Author: Gregory Bateson
Category: learning
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