Edwin Lefevre Quotes

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

Edwin Lefevre

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
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  • Doing

• When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
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• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Kids
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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.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
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• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • School
  • Couple
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Chinese

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Learning
  • Learn
  • Habit

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Learn
  • Gun

• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Learn

• Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Someone
  • Balls
  • Catch

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Learn
  • Organization

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Amazing
  • Things
  • Learn

• I took a page from the playwright Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Page
  • Feminists
  • Humanist

• I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

  

  David Bowie
  • Interest
  • Terrible
  • Jagger

• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opinion
  • Public Opinion

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Learn
  • Give Up
  • Catch