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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Lydon
Music
Good
Religion
History
You
Bible
First
Past
Move On
Once
Kind
Tortuous
Written
Stuff
Like
Learn
Escape
Move
The History Of
Basis
Need
Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe.
John M. Grunsfeld
Eyes
Made
Universe
Our
About
Structure
Opened
Know
Learn
How
Hubble
Little
Us
Really
Helped
At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
John M. Grunsfeld
Me
Science
Age
Mother
Thought
Become
Astronaut
No Chance
Besides
Would
Fine
Learn
Encourage
Six
Just
Wanted
Really
Ever
Actually
Chance
I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.
John Madden
Way
Tackling
Drill
Firm
Firm Believer
Learn
Should
Helmet
Believer
I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.
John Mahoney
Stage
Honestly
Other
Respond
See
About
Part
Head
Like
Learn
Doing
Lines
Get
Any
Just
Them
Actor
Things
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
John Malkovich
Myself
Grateful
One Thing
Some
Given
Fail
Learn
Still
Permitted
The One Thing
Regularity
Thing
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
John Mayall
You
Jazz
Once
Collecting
About
More
More And More
Records
Learn
Blues
Start
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
John Mayer
Me
Learning
Will
Long
Out
Exactly
Somehow
Something
Take
Know
Look
Learn
Learning Curve
How
Curve
Figured
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
John McWhorter
Great
School
Great Britain
Those
About
Hybrid
Absolutely
Spoke
Alongside
Learn
Because
Dialects
Were
West
Very
America
Contribution
Often
African
Interesting
Regional
Worked
Languages
Who
Exposed
Servants
Actually
Britain
Slaves
When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.
John Mulaney
You
People
Move On
Too
Jobs
Something
Learn
Were
Did
Front
Move
Want
Center
Dislike
Then
Many
Lessons
Fast
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
John Naisbitt
Nature
Spiritual
Technology
Balance
Human Nature
Society
Our
Response
High
Introduced
Must
Touch
Demands
New
Learn
Material
New Technology
Wonders
Human
Whenever
Rejected
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
John Oliver
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Before
Well
Learn
How
Quite
Quite A Long Time
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
John Oliver
Comedy
Tried
Never
Learn
Go
Improv
Did
Just
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.
John Ortberg
Appreciation
Courage
Gift
Church
Else
Out
About
Something
Something Else
Given
Idea
Learn
Test
Opposition
Motives
Up
Get
Gained
I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.
John Prine
People
Other
Easier
Songs
Make
Learn
Make Up
Up
Than
Found
Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
John Rhys-Davies
You
Sometimes
Films
Indeed
More
Disasters
Learn
Terribly
Real
Than
Succeed
Successful
It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
John Scofield
Today
Guitar
Progression
Kids
Out
Picking
Learn
Still
Up
Just
Turns
When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.
John Stockton
Crazy
You
Fluid
Stronger
Older
Faster
Those
Some
More
Take
Make
Learn
Because
Normally
Get
Maybe
Capable
Might
Younger
Shots
All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college.
John Stockton
You
Little Things
College
League
Know
Learn
Same
Upper
Little
Little League
Lessons
Things
Levels
Apply
Need
Basketball
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
Good
You
Persistence
Desperation
Power
Collect
Bad
Good Ones
About
Also
Learn
Sure
Making
Lot
Persuasion
Loans
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.
John T. Chambers
Success
Good
Definition
Record
Most
Well
Track
Industry
Learn
Track Record
How
Intel
Microsoft
CEO
Success Is
Successful
Succession
Your
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
You
Welcome
Opportunity
Will
Egotistical
More
Learn
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.
John Turturro
You
Looking
Think
More
Learn
How
Occurred
Just
Happened
Afterwards
Event
Things
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
John Updike
You
Internet
Too Much
Too
About
Like
Learn
Much
Explosives
I'm a tough manager. I question almost every assumption in what are hopefully pragmatic ways. The more you question, the more you learn and the more the person you are questioning learns.
John W. Henry
You
Tough
Every
Assumption
Ways
Hopefully
More
Almost
Learn
Pragmatic
Learns
Question
Questioning
Person
Manager
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters
Problems
Random
Punish
Purpose
Students
Environment
Catch
Abuse
Learn
Discover
Testing
Up
Use
Who
Expose
Grow
Grow Up
Lives
Early
Save
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