Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

  

  Kate Spade
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Kids
  • Weird
  • Impression

• One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Prison
  • Lessons

• An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Impression
  • Snake
  • Leaves

• What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Get
  • Lessons

• History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

  

  James A. Leach
  • History
  • Lessons
  • Provide

• My impression is that he's very accurate. I think he's going to be a guy that can really roam with the football. He's going to make plays with his feet. I think he has a sense of what the pocket is. He'll slide. He's going to be hard to sack because he's so big. We've seen a lot out of him. Now he needs to play.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Football

• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Important
  • Leadership
  • Lessons

• When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Up
  • Crazy

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Decision
  • Wall
  • Lessons

• It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Question
  • Lessons

• You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Lessons
  • Stops

• I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • True
  • Learning
  • Lessons

• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Men
  • Long
  • Mistake

• The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

  

  George Clooney
  • Mom
  • Lessons
  • Taught

• Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Lessons
  • Roots

• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  

  William James
  • Eye
  • Impression
  • Motor

• But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Comfort
  • Lessons
  • Old Woman

• Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom.” If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Jesus
  • Teach
  • Swimming

• I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Father
  • Free
  • Boxes

• The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Lessons
  • Impression
  • My Father