Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

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 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 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 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 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 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 also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

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

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me -- usually, always, my most intense lessons -- the ones my soul came here to learn.

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of visiting another very happy extended family and being at their table.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

Learn the lesson of your pain

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.