Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I think there's always a lesson you can learn from any situation.

I think to always treat others as you would want to be treated yourself and treat every single person with the same amount of respect. It's not often you see it, but sometimes you meet someone who is not very nice to their peers. But when you do, it's a massive lesson in treating everybody with respect.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk about it one time and kind of lay it to rest. I'm ready to put it behind me. I've learned my lesson. I don't recommend the experience I had to anyone, really. It's not something that was fun. It's not a destination you would choose.

it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

It was more of me rushing my shots than anything. Thats the biggest thing for me. I was making good moves, but at the end of my moves, I was rushing all my shots. I learned a lesson.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.