Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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