I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

My father had never watched tennis never liked tennis too much. He said 'OK we buy a racket we watch together ' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

In the transmission of human culture people always attempt to replicate to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning not DNA.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth to make truth laugh because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view and then learning how to perform that function.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic because you keep learning you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line hungry. And so they started to see a lot of that and there was that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners you know it was like a power struggle.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather I saw opportunity to train to motivate to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency because if you don't become efficient you don't run a business well and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

In Britain you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew and there is a leadership element which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain you just do it leave and say 'Thanks.'

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision the energy and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership a health care bill that's going to destroy this country my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership because he's brought it to people's attention it's now a top issue.