Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
