Carter says he learned a lot from his own experience with school.
The pilots turned out to be a highly successful and fascinating breed, and he learned a lot about life and business by just talking to them.
General Schwarzkopf told me he learned a lot about respect and dealing calmly and appropriately with people from his father, who was a U.S. Army major and the lead investigator in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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He brushed aside unionist criticisms that he was turning a blind eye to the IRA - and said he had learned a lot from Prime Minister Tony Blair in how he had approached all the pro-agreement parties.
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The prime minister said he had learned a lot from his two-day tour aimed at dispelling criticisms of a growing north-south divide in Britain.
Kocher, son of a physics professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says he learned about computing because he stayed home a lot, too lazy to bike the two miles into town.
Looking at the pictures, seeing the attitude that he had in the photographs, " he says, "I learned a lot from the photographs.
"I made some big mistakes, and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons, " he said in a video posted online.
Meanwhile the two credit heads told the CEO they learned a lot about how the board works, he recalls.
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This time around, he has done things a lot more quietly and must have learned from the mistakes of the past.
"We've learned a lot of lessons in the last year, " he said.
"Last year we learned a lot and got a tremendous amount of feedback, " he said.
"If you're interested in getting this cow caught, you can give me a call, " said Mr. Grell, who says he learned roping years ago from an old cowboy he met while working at a feed lot.
"I have learned a lot of lessons from the old people around here, " he says.
Eisner, who grew up in Manhattan, the child of left-leaning parents who hosted fundraisers for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (one of his earliest memories is of Paul Robeson singing) was never the smartest kid in the room, but he always wanted to get As and spent a lot of time studying how the smart kids learned.
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"I didn't know a lot about agriculture, " the New Jersey Democrat said, adding he's learned much from Iowa farmers.
"I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons, " he said in the video.
"First of all I learned a lot more about myself and secondly I learned how I could handle pressure, " he said.
Sort of a Roots-like effort to find out more about his family and his father, who was dead by then, and his coming to terms with a lot of things that were different about him and about Kenya, and some things that he learned about his father that were also disturbing.
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