John Holt Quotes
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
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We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
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Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
