Learning Virtually Quotes

#1. Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.

Bertolt Brecht

#2. The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

James Chanos

#3. It is virtually impossible to create and sustain over time conditions for productive learning for students when they do not exist for teachers.
-Seymour Sarason

Diane Sweeney

#4. Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Dan Gable

#5. The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Henry Ford

#6. Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Monty Woolley

#7. If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

Jay Sidhu

#8. I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife.

Gillian Flynn

#9. It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#10. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Michael J. Gelb

#11. I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.

John Christy

#12. Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#13. It's never too late to love and live again.
Without love in life, nothing to lose or gain.

Debasish Mridha

#14. In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

Harry Markowitz

#15. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Idries Shah

#16. The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

Saint Bernard

#17. Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Chuck Close

#18. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Gordon Livingston

#19. [She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

Jane Austen