"Gnome" in Dublin Magazine Vol. 9 (1934), p. 8
Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist
"The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems", in Heilprin, Markuson, and Goodman, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965 (Washington, DC: Spartan Books, 1965)
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: Moral Disorder and Other Stories
“We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in an interview with The London Daily Telegraph (7 May 2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1933223/Gorbachev-US-could-start-new-Cold-War.html <br class="br">Context: We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer
Source: The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”
Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960) actress
Lawrence J. Quirk, Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0312514425, p. 77.
“It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.”
Craig Clevenger The Contortionist's Handbook
Source: The Contortionist's Handbook
“I learned 60 compositions in drut laya within a year.”
Gangubai Hangal (1913–2009) Indian singer
When she was thirteen learned it from her first guru Krishna Acharya, in Khyāl: Creativity Within North India's Classical Music http://books.google.co.in/books?id=MiE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA192, p. 192
Ram Dass book Be Here Now
(quoting Timothy Leary's description of the Psilocybin experience).
Be Here Now (1971)
