Lessons Quotes
Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.
I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.
I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.
Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?
There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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.
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.
The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.
