Lessons Quotes

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

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

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.

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

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

I used to teach dance lessons.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

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.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.