Ms. DICKINSON: Never learned to change a flat tire, and I never learned to bake a decent pie.
The very people who worked hard to get a good education, studied, learned, applied themselves and learned to compete.
While Phillips married into wealth, she was actively engaged in volunteer work where she says she learned to listen to people.
She started taking vitamins and learned that not being good at something is not a valid reason for not doing it (A.K.A., she learned to roller blade).
Another case study that stood out for me involved the famed restaurateur Danny Meyer who, while deluged with opportunities to open new restaurants not just across the U.S., but also the world, learned to say no.
We learned that no one gets where they are on their own, that each of us -- every single one of us -- we have a community of people lifting us up -- from the teachers who inspire us to the janitors who keep our schools clean. (Applause.) And we learned to value everyone's contribution and to treat everyone with respect.
Mother, as a suburbanite, gave up walking almost as soon as she learned how to.
Mr. Sherwin soon learned to be candid without offending anyone.
After two centuries of spartan innovation, the U.S. Marines have learned how to make do with whatever is available.
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Thanks in part to ideas born at dB Drag events, the acoustic power of car stereo speakers has increased tenfold in the last ten years, from a maximum of 500 watts per square meter to 5, 000. (A loudspeaker at a rock concert puts out 2, 500 to 3, 000 watts.) Pioneer learned from dB Dragsters to cover speaker coils with ceramics to dissipate heat.
Before the game, Guillen said he had learned to stick to talking sports.
As a community organizer he learned to compromise to accomplish everything.
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In the luxury car showroom where we meet, four Soviet cars are attracting knowing smiles and recollections from Muscovites who have learned to aspire to better things.
Mulally, who has spent 37 years at Boeing, said he looked forward to applying lessons learned at Boeing to Ford.
As a young broker in the hog pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Terrence A. (Terry) Duffy learned how to break up fights.
Age-based allocation directs older people to take less risk each year, regardless of market conditions, even though they have learned to handle bear markets and have even learned to take advantage of them.
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Mr. Pedersen says he learned to navigate the country's government and establish local business ties in order to develop oil fields.
But Ms. Davidson said she has learned to let her husband take control.
With coaching from Mr. Decker, she learned to look people in the eye when under pressure.
Mandarin competence takes 2, 200 class hours, with half of that time spent in a country where it's spoken, according to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, whereas Spanish can be learned in 600 to 750 class hours.
Mr. Watson first learned to play a fretless banjo made by his father that was sheathed in cat's skin.
Now Swinmurn is looking to bring what he learned from that experience to RNKD.
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Not bad for a restaurant owner whose wife, Grace, says has never really learned to cook.
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But it's not just the folks at these town halls who have learned how to heckle.
Clinton sees something of herself in the story of a 65-year-old woman who has just learned to read.
The child was fully immersed in less than a minute and stayed that way as he learned to navigate.
Somehow a climate of fear and distrust developed between two communities that at least outwardly had learned to coexist.
It was in that kitchen that my artistic four-year-old daughter learned to paint.
That ease of extraction is what made tin one of the very first metals that humans really learned to use.
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