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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics.

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal. It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself. Today, I still have moments where I feel myself start to go to the place of not being on my own team, but then I reel myself back.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

One of the biggest lessons I also learned from living with Elvis and loving him for so many years was that we're all human, and no matter what level one has reached in terms of fame, they're still human beings.

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

Patience is the First Lesson.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Part of company culture is path-dependent.  It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.