"Making distinctions is part of learning. So is……" — Nancy Gibbs

"Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes."

— Nancy Gibbs

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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version…
You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

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More Distinctions Quotes

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to… — William Bartram
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I… — George W. Bush
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. — Thomas Aquinas
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and… — Barbara Jordan
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. — Thomas Paine
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that… — Samuel Johnson
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of… — Rajneesh

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