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Time spent folding T-shirts was time we didn't spend on learning how to use weapons or combat defense of a base.

Timmy has played a lot of point guard for us this year and he can play the two (guard). This was a great learning experience for him. He has made a lot of progress. There is just so much to learn coming from high school to college.

The project is going to have a profound influence. We are opening a door to new areas of research that will pay off over time. We'll be learning things for months and years to come.

The question going forward is do you trade directors with 100 percent purity but facing a steep learning curve with those that are competent and seasoned board members? I would say until proven guilty, you keep working with those you have.

When you're starting out as a rookie coach with those two, my plea was, 'Act like you're learning something, OK, so I can keep my job.' They had something like 35 years experience. I would say, 'Tell me what you want to do and act like it was my idea.' They were great that way. You knew Mike would be a great coach.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

There is no time of life past learning something.

We didn't play up to our potential in Hawaii. But, it was a good learning experience for our veteran team. Now they are more focused.

Yahoo takes security very seriously and employs measures to help protect our users. Upon learning of this issue, we immediately began working on a number of improvements, some of which are already in effect.

Yaroslav is a very skilled player and has a great feel for the game. I think having him here to learn our system and work with our coaches on an individual basis will speed up the learning process.

Yeah, I do. It's a big comfort level. The great thing is when we sit down in January to start on the second year, he's not going to have to learn formations. He already knows all the plays, all the formations. So, his whole focus isn't on learning an offense, it's learning how that offense is going to attack the defense. That's where the comfort level comes in in the second year.

Was it the right thing to say? No. Are there certain lines that I have used in the past that are on 'Saturday Night Live?' Yes, ... But this is part of the learning experience.

We're elated to be 3-1 right now. We've got very young team that's still learning things on a weekly basis. It's been several years since we've made the playoffs, and we like where we're at now.

We're especially interested in water, whether it's ice, liquid or vapor. Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

We're learning about some different healthy choices in food and some different recipes.

We're learning, and as we recognize things, we'll get better. Our goal is always to be better by the end of the season and come conference tournament time.

We're learning and coming along. Our young kids are getting more experience and that makes a difference.

We're learning and growing together to become better Christians.

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

We're learning every day, and that's why we're turning the corner. I'm trying to take it one pitch at a time and let the defense do its thing. I'm trying to stay within myself.

We're learning every single game we play. I knew we'd have our growing pains, but I keep feeling like we're getting closer to where we're going. These girls realize they have to work harder.

We're learning from our mistakes. (The coaches) got on us pretty hard on our mistakes. They're getting tired of ... seeing us make the same mistakes.

We're learning how to drink water out a fire hose right now. At the end of the year, we are out of money with no place to go.

We're learning how to fight, and we're getting better every week and tougher every week. I was real proud of the kids' effort.

We're learning how to play when the other team knows you're good. You have to find ways to win games. It's all part of the process, but we have to find ways. That's part of the adjustment when you become a good team.

We're learning how to win, and we're learning how to close games out. There's no panic on the sideline if we're behind.

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

We're learning. It's my first year, too, and they're learning me. Combined, I knew it would take about a half a year and we're starting to see some positive results.

We're learning just as much as they are sometimes. Customers are really confused about it too.

We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs to protect these collections not just in New Orleans but all along the Gulf Coast.

We're learning on the court. We're trying to get a little chemistry. We're going with kids who hadn't seen many minutes.

We're learning some things about ourselves being steady down the stretch. You know me, I try to just take one game at a time, but I can see progress. Guys are in better shape. We practice harder and things are coming together.

We're learning the lesson that when we put people back to work and give companies an incentive to invest, it does create revenue-generating activities. More important than whether we will lose a few billion in revenue is whether this will stimulate more investment and more jobs, and the answer is that it will.

We're learning time and time again as fishery after fishery collapses that you reach such low numbers that they can be considered extinct.

We're learning to close out games. Winning games like this shows we're a playoff team. We're going to go, we know that.

We're learning to handle it. We play well against man-to-man, we're getting there against a zone.

We're learning to play together. We're learning having a scoring champion is not as important as the win. We want balanced scoring.

We're learning. We're starting to understand how to be patient with the puck and we're limiting our mistakes which is important with a young team.

We are confident the problems will be overcome in the next few days. It is a learning curve.

We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.

We still have a lot of work to do, but I do think we are making some real progress. We're still very much in a testing and learning stage.

We recognize that all young children need to build foundations in traditional content areas, like reading and math, and we continue to provide children with the tools they need to be successful in these areas, ... However, research tells us that some children, for example, have higher musical, interpersonal or reflective skills than others. We have created a curriculum that provides active learning opportunities in each of the eight Tutor Time 'Smarts': Word Smart(TM), Math Smart(TM), Body Smart(TM), Design Smart(TM), Music Smart(TM), Nature Smart(TM), People Smart(TM) and Me Smart(TM).

We're coming. It's maybe a little slower than we'd like, but we're coming and we have a lot of confidence in here. ... I think the team is learning how we need to play in the playoffs.

We're coming together more, learning each other's games a little better and getting a good feel for each other. We're having fun out there.

We are just kind of learning and growing together through these races and if we can pull together and get some good results that would be the best scenario.

We are learning about Hong Kong's laws, regulations, and company operating practices. Only after we are familiar with these can we do business there.

We are learning how to win another way,

We are learning how to work together. We are learning what is different and we are trying to take the best part of each program to bring everything together.

We are learning the game every day. Our girls have improved from day one 100 percent. Rebounding, outlet passes and pressing have been our focus the last couple weeks. The girls have responded with hard work and multiple wins.

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

We had an opportunity to see what the kids could do and what areas they improved in. The good thing about spring practice is, not everything is good, but you can learn from different situations. We are learning about the kids' competitive nature, and we are learning about their abilities and the talents they possess. Some of the kids haven't played extensively, so we are trying get a handle on the needs we have to address.

We play better and better each time we take the court. We're still making mistakes, but we're learning. We are getting there.

We played with scrappiness and fought all the way through. Overall it was a good season learning with how to deal with ups and downs.

We played well, but it's a learning experience to see what Division I hockey is like. We now know what it is like at the next level.

We did what we needed to do. It was great to see some of our bench step up. They took the inside away and it's really just a matter of learning how to respond to what teams take away.

We are not learning anything here that isn't in previous accounts,

We are not learning anything here that isn't in previous accounts, ... But to be in the physical presence of the events, that is different. While we are trying to forge a peace, we need to remember what brought us here.

We are absolutely delighted by the successful recovery of the Stardust samples. Years of planning, preparation and teamwork paid off handsomely this morning. We're very proud to have played a role in another of NASA's exciting voyages of exploration and look forward to learning what Stardust will tell us about the origins of our solar system.

Whether it's a day, a weekend or a week, a learning vacation is a renewing experience.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

We are pleased that we can help the City of Barre, one of our largest customers, with this exciting project. In light of the challenges we face in finding new generation to satisfy Vermont's future energy needs, it is important to find new and cost-effective ways to generate electricity. We are interested in learning from the Barre study whether there are other opportunities across Vermont to harness electricity from potential micro-hydro sites.

We are really just at the beginning of the learning process of the right way to bring the family together and pull them apart.

We didn't have a lot of people on the bench and we needed the young guys to give us consistent minutes. They're learning and they're getting better.

We want to help our kids understand all the different forms of bullying and the effects of it. It can take your mind off of what you should be doing ... When that exists, they're not learning and that's what we're here for.

We would just be learning to play Beatles songs and Rolling Stones songs of that time - of the '60s. That's kinda what inspired me to play.

We were a little rusty. It's been two weeks since we played. We're inexperienced, but we're learning and getting better.

We don't know how good we have it, having a festival like this to come to. It is a learning experience, as well as a competition.

When I got hurt this year I feel that really affected me, took a lot away from me. I wasn't able to steal bases. Every time I hit the ball in the hole I wasn't able to run. I just couldn't run. It's kind of frustrating because you feel like you would have done a better job. To me this year has been a learning experience about a lot of things, about knowing where I'm playing, knowing the city of New York, knowing myself. I feel good with it.

The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually large, the compensation for coaches who make the decisions is extremely high, and the market for their services is intensely competitive. Despite these forces, the standard assumption that agents maximize simple objective functions fails to lead to reasonably accurate descriptions of behavior.

We're excited to finally have Erin with us. I think she is one of the best young point guards in the world. This signing will give us the opportunity to play both her and Lindsay together. While young, I expect she will have a learning adjustment period, but I expect her to be able to adjust at a fairly rapid pace.

Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Xamlon Web allows developers to be immediately productive in new deployment scenarios with virtually no learning curve, ... Now developers can use the programming languages they already know to create seamless business applications that deploy via the Web on practically any device or computer in the world.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

What I expect is consistency of doing it right every day. Each day has to be a learning experience, but at the same time you have to be at the top of your game. That's tough to do, that's one of the things if you're going to be a major-league player the consistency factor of your daily approach has to be very good. That's what I expect him to improve on.

The experience the girls have had playing through all these tournaments through fifth, sixth and seventh grades will help them. I've been involved with these girls since third, fourth grade. If I wasn't the coach, I was taking care of the paper work. Nine of the 10 girls played on the summer team. The girls are still growing up and learning as we go.

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans.

The credit goes to (Russellville) for making it happen. It's a learning experience for us, and hopefully we can use the learning experience for later down the road.

The days of wearing logos and slogans in schools are over. These type of things are very disruptive to the learning environment.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas.

What we've always said is that every child here is going to be treated with unconditional positive regard because they deserve it as every child does. It's all about making healthy, caring attachments for these boys. They give it to the horses and the horses give it back. It's about learning to develop a relationship, something many of them have never done before.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.