Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

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 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.

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

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'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 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'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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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'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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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?