#lear

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #first #game #had

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. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#blinkers #clearly #defined #goals #too

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out. ↗

— Beck

#did #every #every time #go #how

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us. ↗

— Brian Behlendorf

#goodness #how #i #i think #innate

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.' ↗

— Jason Behr

#answer #arizona #ask #city #clear

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#circus #clown #high #i #i always

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#charge #integrated #learning #life #non

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future