Best 1267 quotes in «lessons quotes» category

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

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 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 the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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

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 there's always a lesson you can learn from any 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 at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.