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Jean Williams

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KELLY JONES Turn your mistakes into successes by learning from them.
JIM GENOVESE As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you...
D. MORGENSTERN In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to...
ALICE MILLER Nothing is ever wrong if you learn out of it and nothing is right if it makes you arrogant. Watch On...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And t...
ALEXANDRA KOTUR I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just l...
KAITLYN DEVER Both mistakes and successes are ways to learn.
JIM GENOVESE Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
JOHN C. CALHOUN Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc...
CARLOS GHOSN I learn as much from my mistakes as I do from my successes.
JIM GENOVESE That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Open up yourself to learning from other people, especially their mistakes. Of course, you can also l...
ZENG HAN JUN It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Part of the process of getting what you want is learning what you don't want.
JIM GENOVESE One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers...
EDGARDO H. PANGILINAN We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.
AMANDA VOORHIS We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.
AMANDA VAN VOORHIS Life is learning process. We must keep learning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO They're very interested in sending their graduates out to Main Street as well as Wall Street.
BEN BARON I think many clinicians, many physicians, are now listening and also learning about complementary th...
DAVID ROSENTHAL You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ Sometimes it is not what you say but what is heard that is remembered.
JAIME CONTRERAS I feel like we're able to take coaching. You know the coaches are going to raise their voice and the...
AL THORNTON I haven't seen a lot of what I would consider real successes yet [with municipal wireless]. I'm watc...
DEREK KERTON The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND The Main Street festivals weren't nearly as big then as they are now. But we always went because we ...
JOAN BLEDSOE Learn, believe and achieve!
SUNNY BASRA The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with eve...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Confidence in yourself is what allows you to rise up and reach your potential. Confidence is not ach...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn fr...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce...
ANN BRASHARES Jeżeli chce się żyć każdą nadarzającą się chwilą, trzeba umierać dla każdej innej chwili...
ALDOUS HUXLEY And now
And Now is the time ... in which inside you are going to get bored (But you have time c...
DEYTH BANGER Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by the...
LAWSON PURDY Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by ...
LAWSON PURDY Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
BILL ACKMAN Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education...
HENRY BONILLA Every mistake is a new style.
MICHAEL MEADE Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Successful people don’t take mistakes personally as an affront to their self-worth. They use mista...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There's evidence that Amazon has done its homework. "They used insight to refine an offering that wo...
GENE DETROYER I would think that it would only be fair that the Chamber was able to reduce their request by 25 per...
MICHAEL GIBSON We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHREY DAVY I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY What if mistakes are successes in disguise?
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big citi...
TOM FORD We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.
TIM FARGO To make mistakes in life is a natural reoccurrence, but what if the mistakes we make are not learned...
GARY F EVANS... There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear...
PHILIP T. M. A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR. We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gather...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We are open to other people's ideas and we are constantly listening to other people,
HOLLY BARRON You are learning many social cues and nuances that you didn't pick up on when you were younger, such...
JULIE ROSS For me chilling out is when I can stay at home, order food from outside and watch a film with my fri...
BIPASHA BASU You can’t always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more m...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an op...
DONALD L. HICKS We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we re...
VALERY YASHIN Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one tha...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
RICHARD BRANSON If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.
MAVIS GALLANT An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening
MARLON BRANDO There are no coincidences and no mistakes. Every role has a purpose and every path has merit. Everyt...
PETER SANTOS We have been hearing from our neighbors, the cities and counties, about the urgency of their needs f...
LYNN VALBUENA Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goa...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Mistakes? Well, hell, we all make mistakes. And what’s more, we are expected to learn from them. I...
COREY TAYLOR In a strange way, the issue is not as salient, as important or resonates on Main Street as much as p...
STEPHEN HESS The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildin...
DANIEL DEFOE If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks a...
TYLER COWEN What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
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JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
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JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
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JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
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JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
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JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
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JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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