Lessons Quotes

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

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

Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.

Learn the lesson of your pain

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.