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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
J. C. Chandor
Project
Weakness
Weaknesses
Embracing
About
Writer
Had
Call
Learned
Narrative
Always
Lot
Story
Inherent
Margin
I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
J. D. Vance
Good
Gun
Community
Damn
Recipe
Way
Trick
Well
Make
Learn
Learned
How
Get
Shoot
Frozen
Warm
Butter
My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
J. J. Watt
Family
Long
Parents
Believe
Cost
Could
Learned
How
How Much
Up
Did
Hockey
Grew
Middle-Class Family
Us
Much
Let Us
Play
Actually
Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
J. J. Watt
Myself
People
Too Much
Too
Analyzing
Nutrition
About
More
Putting
Feel
Over
Learned
Because
Were
Years
Lot
Stopped
Much
Based
Number
My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
J. K. Simmons
Hero
Understanding
Older
Relates
Our
Way
Mustache
About
Guy
He
Gordon
Learned
Commissioner
Far
Certain
Certain Way
Who
In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Myself
Great
Physics
Great Deal
Country
Spring
States
About
Pursue
Student
Had
New
Days
Learned
Returned
Deal
Cultivation
Wanted
Explain
Foster
United
Homesick
United States
In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
Jack Antonoff
Love
You
Business
Sometimes
Try
Important
Constantly
Dive
Records
Touring
Know
Learned
How
Making
Just
Things
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
Jack Canfield
Life
Success
You
People
Achieve
Walks
Secret
Distilled
About
Well
Learned
Truths
Quite
Want
Decide
CEOs
Working
Full-Time
Companies
Large
Helping
Many
Works
Moms
Universal
For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
Jack Canfield
Life
Success
Me
Book
Training
School
First
Become
Own
Every
Others
Took
Out
High
Find
Ten
My Own
Ten Years
Area
Could
Studied
Allowed
Self-Esteem
Read
Learned
Got
How
Years
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Graduate
Graduate School
After
Expert
Create
Lives
My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
Jack Dangermond
Service
School
Dinner
Parents
Nursery
Way
Kids
Immigrants
Dinner Table
Table
About
Cash
Through
Learned
Around
Were
Get
Customer
Customer Service
Us
Paying
Who
Bills
Started
Flow
On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
Jack Dangermond
Crew
Other
Everybody
Learned
Equally
Lot
Worked
Workers
Landscape
Hard
Treated
During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
Jack Dangermond
Education
Knowledge
Learning
Drinking
Fire
Feeling
Year
Harvard
Out
Ten
More
Ten Years
Previous
Hose
Had
Learned
Years
Than
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
Jack Nicklaus
Balance
People
Way
Rapidly
See
More
Had
Mostly
Learned
Courses
Built
Doing
Up
Very
Than
Just
Wanted
Golf
Which
Golf Courses
Etc
Played
I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
Jack Ramsay
Stress
Focus
Important
Too
Kinds
Physical
Objective
Spite
Hazards
Learned
Deal
How
Conditioning
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
Jack Steinberger
Students
Feel
Fellow
Learned
Fellow Students
Much
Professors
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch
Success
Teacher
Good
Mistakes
Learned
Often
Now I've learned to enjoy my football while I can. Every time I'm on the pitch, I just enjoy it.
Jack Wilshere
Time
Enjoy
Every
Every Time
Football
Learned
Pitch
Just
While
Now
The best player I ever played with is probably Cesc Fabregas. I only got to play with him for a year before he went back to Barcelona, but I learned so much from him - the way he knew what he was going to do with the ball before he got it and his passing - and he scored goals.
Jack Wilshere
Best
Goals
Year
Before
Back
Way
Only
He
Knew
Him
Learned
Ball
Got
Passing
His
Going
Barcelona
Much
Ever
Play
Played
Player
I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Me
Classroom
Well
Learned
Very
Listen
Helped
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
Writing
Own
Extra
Add
Some
About
My Own
Songs
Written
Sing
Learned
Led
Verse
Verses
Friend
Just
Many
I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
Jackson Rathbone
Love
Ride
Horses
Learned
How
Texas
Up
Norway
Grew
Younger
Really
Riding
Actually
Joseph Zawinul does overkill, and his technological overkill sucks, but there's no friction between us; I just say, 'Look,' and that's it. Do you have any idea how much music I learned from him?
Jaco Pastorius
Music
You
Say
Joseph
Idea
Between
Look
Him
Learned
Does
How
How Much
His
Friction
Any
Just
Us
Much
Sucks
Technological
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Fair
Most
Learned
What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
Jacqueline Woodson
Myself
People
Matter
Circumstances
Learned
Survive
I am Olympic champion for life, and I have learned to enjoy what that means.
Jade Jones
Life
Champion
Enjoy
Learned
Am
Means
Olympic
I enjoyed my time in Baltimore. I really did. I learned so much.
Jake Arrieta
Time
My Time
Learned
Baltimore
Did
Much
Really
Enjoyed
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