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In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.
David Grinspoon
Time
You
Think
Scales
Would
Over
Learn
Decent
Order
Century
Plan
Communicating
Act
Species
Millennium
Chance
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
David Grinspoon
Degree
Power
Way
Possessed
Some
Through
Disaster
Learn
Foresight
Often
Hard
Hard Way
Things
Humans
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
David Hare
World
Job
Our
Earth
Parallel
About
Learn
Surely
While
Create
Here
Universes
When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.
David Harewood
Life
Food
People
Nation
Enough
Everyone
Hungry
Must
No-One
Share
Feed
Learn
Another
Greater
Than
Going
Race
Why
Right
Million
Million People
'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.
David Hepworth
You
Business
Made
Apps
Tell
Some
Cases
Something
Guy
Dating
Entrepreneurs
Name
Learn
Built
How
Inevitably
Selling
Stories
Story
Whether
Ask
Fortune
Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.
David Hepworth
Battle
Half
Big
Smaller
Naming
Learn
Lot
Owners
Successful
Media
Here
My life has been in reverse. It wasn't fame, and it wasn't money, but I always wanted to succeed. The only way I could do that was to try with every job to be better than I was in the last one, and to learn.
David Jason
Life
Money
Better
Try
Job
My Life
Every
Way
Has-Been
Only
Could
Learn
Always
Reverse
Been
Fame
Than
Wanted
Succeed
Last
Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.
David Leitch
You
Fight
Characters
Telling
About
Scene
Involved
Learn
Lot
Story
Little
Fight Scene
You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
David Leitch
You
Fight
Action
Speed
Tricks
Compress
Having
More
Toward
Longer
Come
Look
Make
Learn
Shooting
Dynamic
Lens
People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.
David Lichtenstein
Time
Me
People
World
Simple
Long
Long Time
Took
Rather
Simple Idea
Idea
Over
New
Learn
York
New York
Want
It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.
David Luiz
Great
Every
Never
Football
Since
Learn
Understand
Always
Stops
Coach
Started
Playing
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
David Milch
People
Say
Has-Been
Beat
Beaten
Nail
Like
Know
Learn
Hammer
Been
Who
They Say
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
David Ortiz
You
Better
Though
Through
Learn
Been
Years
Getting
Getting Better
Seasons
I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.
David R. Ellis
You
Films
Out
Spielberg
Guys
Stuff
Talented
Like
Look
Obviously
Learn
Lot
Fan
Them
Lucas
Soderbergh
I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.
David Robinson
Achieve
About
Pushed
Had
Learn
Always
Lot
Curious
Get
Wanted
Little
Really
Things
When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.
David Rudisha
You
Training
Money
Losing
Made
Sight
Focused
Some
Fact
Well
Learn
Well Known
Known
Deal
How
Am
Targets
Any
Want
Cannot
Now
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.
David Sanborn
Attitude
Music
Best
Think
About
Something
Something New
Student
New
Look
Learn
Because
Always
Perpetual
Just
Being
Regard
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn. Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.
David Sanborn
Attitude
Music
Best
You
Lie
Think
Beneath
Out
About
Something
Something New
Student
Outside
New
Look
Learn
Because
Always
Perpetual
Hand
Just
Being
Where
Regard
Either
Dismiss
Interests
Realm
Your
Detroit is a great deli city. If only GM could learn from what the delis in Detroit are doing! The best rye bread anywhere - double-baked, crispy, warm rye that they serve their sandwiches with - and great corned beef. It's a passionate deli town.
David Sax
Best
Great
City
Deli
Only
Could
Detroit
Town
Learn
Doing
Passionate
Beef
Bread
Anywhere
Warm
Sandwiches
Serve
New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.
David Shields
Me
Technology
Vision
Possessing
Web
Seems
New
Learn
Artists
Them
Use
Mechanics
Even when you think you can't learn much more about the game, you can and do, in fact, learn more by looking at things in a different light.
David Silva
You
Game
Light
Looking
Think
About
More
Fact
Learn
Different
In Fact
Much
Even
Things
Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
David Soul
Work
You
Father
Husband
Tools
Nobody
Learn
How
Teaches
Star
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
David Strathairn
Culture
Our
Ourselves
Tell
About
Something
Learn
Stories
Literature
Should
Film
If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.
David Suzuki
Hope
People
Live
Our
Resources
Seven
Ways
Neither
Finding
Finite
Bags
Environmentally
Well
Learn
Nor
Friendly
Efficient
Efficiently
Any
Planet
Use
Billion
Plastic
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
David Tang
People
Half
Characters
Strokes
Introduced
Would
More
Only
More People
Write
Simplified
Also
Learn
Enable
Fewer
China
Chinese
Mao
Chairman
Chairman Mao
Believing
If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
David Walton
You
Back
Out
Know
Learn
How
Get
Quit
Hockey
Play
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