Quotes with hardest-learned

Quotes 41 till 60 of 366.

  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    Source: In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bud Grant Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • John Powell Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
    John Powell
     
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  • Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Judith Viorst But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Marie Dressler By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • George Burns By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bryan Cogman Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Cohen Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
    Source: New Scientist 22 (392), 21 May 1964, pp.483-4.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brad Feld Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bobbi Brown Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • William Arthur Ward Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Byron Nelson Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
    Source: Shape your swing the modern way (1976)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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