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.'"

Cecelia Ahern

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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.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• When I was five I had violin lessons.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Lessons
  • Had
  • VIolin

• 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

• The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Lessons

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • School

• 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

• In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Future

• 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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Arts
  • Degrees
  • Academy

• Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Knowledge
  • Peace
  • Wealth

• 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

• I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

  

  Marc Singer
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Experience
  • History
  • Responsibility

• The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Degrees

• 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.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Children
  • Alone

• 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

• We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Lessons

• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Those who are unswerving have resolve.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Resolve
  • Unswerving

• "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.'"

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Lessons
  • Degrees
  • Hundred