Jerome Bruner Quotes

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • American
  • Friend
  • Best

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Rock

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Think
  • Hope
  • Philosophy

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Life
  • Country
  • Father

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • After
  • Turned

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Work
  • Goals

• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Work
  • Country

• If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

  

  George Clooney
  • Rooms
  • Winner
  • Rings

• In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Summer

• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  

  Jerome Bruner
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