"Persistently Learning: How Small-world Network Imprints and Organizational Adaptation Affect Firm Performance". Strategic Organization 12, no.
Through the challenges of lighting fires in the wind and trying to boil persistently lukewarm water, students learned that not all stoves are created equal (for example, the jiko stove was much easier to use than the knock-off version with a higher thermal mass).
We have learned over the years that persistently pushing sources to identify themselves actually works—not always, of course, but more often than many reporters initially expect.
I learned, quickly, that my brain currently has only two settings: persistently overworked or not functioning at all.
Traditional work in this area has focussed on fictional stories told in laboratory settings, but Nyhan believes that looking at real debates is the best way to learn how persistently incorrect views of the world can be corrected.
I can, at a glance, detect not just the most frequent contributors to rec.travel.europe but also those most "persistently present". I can learn that the news group that shares the most messages with alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees is alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox.
For the year of 2010, Karen made a strategic business decision to "live her life as an artist". And while that may conjure up visions of a year of whimsy and impulse, to Karen it meant diligently, persistently and consistently enjoying, learning and growing her love of photography.
I wouldn't have learned this if my doctors, nurses and family hadn't openly and persistently questioned my treatment refusal.
The former Celtic manager had also clearly not learned his lesson from Saturday, when he was sent to the stands for persistently leaving his technical area, as he raced down the touchline to protest against an offside decision shortly after Tucudean struck.
Given, however, the delusion we persistently face in ourselves and the evil we see surrounding us every day, it is obvious that the fact of being enlightened does not mean that we have necessarily learned how to act enlightened.
"You learn to be persistently polite.
