Cecelia Ahern Quotes
"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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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.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.
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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.
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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.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
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A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"
