Lessons Quotes

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

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 was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

But he’s never been interested in me, and the last time I made a move on him, Caillen almost tore my arm out of its socket. Lesson learned. Syn off-limits. (Kasen)

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

There are no long-term lessons - ever.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

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

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

You always learn lessons in business.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

There is no part of like that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.