Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

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 I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

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 it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.