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The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
Simon Greenleaf
Time
Year
Others
Late
John
Some
Dating
Generally
Written
Conceded
Learned
Gospel
Been
After
Agreed
Early
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.
Simon Hoggart
Teacher
Me
World
Desperate
Year
Own
Young
Lesson
Other
Though
About
Invaluable
My Own
Qualifications
Until
Learned
Around
Uganda
Were
Hear
Lousy
Taught
Children
Wanted
Realised
Persons
Ignored
Even
Gap
Largely
I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'
Simon Hoggart
Work
Hope
Day
Great
Me
Fruit
Past
Addict
Those
Ninja
One Day
Syrian
Destroyed
Admit
Shall
David
David Cameron
Hypnotic
Points
Remembered
Reminds
Also
Him
Learned
iPad
His
Cameron
Wonder
Get
Send
Quite
Just
Being
Grenades
Helps
Rebels
Play
I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.
Sissy Spacek
Teacher
School
Never
Learned
Said
Got
Lines
Play
Actually
I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.
Skylar Grey
Life
Music
World
Tough
Music Industry
Through
Industry
Learned
Been
Lot
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
Sloane Crosley
Writer
Study
Learned
Endless
Human
Forgotten
Being
Transition
Lessons
Lessons Learned
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.
Snoop Dogg
Music
World
Sold
Music World
Direct
Records
Write
Take
Feel
Steps
Like
Learn
Learned
Because
Lot
Jump
Just
Want
Movie
Produce
I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.
Soccer Mommy
Definitely
Sign
Percentage
Advancing
Stuff
Like
Learned
Contract
Going
Should
Paid
Show
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.
Song Hye-kyo
Me
Song
Thought
Manners
He
Sincerity
Him
Known
Learned
His
Than
Younger
Many
Things
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
Sonia Rykiel
Me
Political
Clothes
Everything
Pushes
Put
Learned
Cultural
Social
Forward
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
Sonia Sotomayor
Mind
Lodge
Details
Examining
General
Colors
Put
Powerful
Smells
House
Learned
Witnesses
Sounds
Questions
Listener
Burning
Sensory
Ask
Elicit
Image
Associations
One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.
Sonny Bill Williams
Key
Simplicity
Field
One Thing
Over
Well
Learned
Off
Thing
Career
I have learned from my mistakes... the business we are in is cutthroat. I have seen too many older blokes give their all for clubs, then be told they are not wanted. Even blokes still on contract are told to look elsewhere.
Sonny Bill Williams
Business
Seen
Mistakes
Older
Too
Elsewhere
Give
Look
Learned
Still
Contract
Wanted
Clubs
Then
Many
Even
I look up to and have learned a lot from the women before me. With that said, there has never been a woman in this ring with the experience that I have in fighting.
Sonya Deville
Me
Woman
Women
Experience
Before
Fighting
Ring
Never
Look
Learned
Said
Been
Lot
Up
I realized - and I think I learned this at a young age - that anything that's worth anything, you're going to take a risk to get there and it's not going to be easy.
Sonya Deville
You
Age
Worth
Young
Think
Easy
Risk
Take
Learned
Get
Going
Young Age
Anything
Realized
I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Myself
School
Too
Never
Learned
Up
Where
Stand
Stand Up
Popular
My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
Stacey Abrams
Leadership
Struggle
Natural
Parents
About
Classroom
More
Never
Industry
Learned
Witnessing
Than
Any
Lives
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.
Stana Katic
People
Sometimes
Avenue
Address
Something
Supposed
Learned
Talking
Always
Discuss
Person
Authority
Experienced
Personally
Even
Thinks
Position
A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Time
Daily
Group
Spend
Ensure
Must
Adopt
Civilian
Winning
Weekly
Consulting
Principle
Learned
Priorities
Yearly
American
Closely
Organizations
Companies
Company
Helps
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Actually
Units
Career
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.
Stanley Hauerwas
Mother
Looking
Birth
Desperately
Birth Certificate
Something
Previous
Through
Had
She
Learned
Discovered
Effects
Child
Died
Children
Wanted
After
Which
Then
Certificate
Original
Her
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick
Book
School
Old
Pleasure
Never
Until
Read
Learned
Years
Anything
What we learned was that the collective glamour of a specialty store could sell a lot of merchandise.
Stanley Marcus
Collective
Could
Merchandise
Glamour
Learned
Lot
Sell
Store
Specialty
I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.
Statik Selektah
Listening
Learned
Much
Jay-Z
Gang
I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.
Stella Young
Work
Space
Black
Gave
Mark
Interview
Immediate
Bad
Able
Bad Idea
Potential
Had
Idea
Name
Employer
Learned
Because
Access
Accessible
Impression
Up
Quickly
Discussion
Wheelchair
Either
Against
Straight
Asking
Why
I have learned to make a lot of effort and sacrifice for this sport, and now I can say it's paying me back. So it is important to always show determination and effort on the pitch.
Stephan El Shaarawy
Me
Determination
Sacrifice
Important
Back
Say
Sport
Make
Learned
Always
Lot
Effort
Pitch
Show
Paying
Now
I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.
Stephan El Shaarawy
Great
Words
Few
Though
Arabic
Kinship
Only
Feel
Learned
Even
Origins
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