Lesson Quotes
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg -
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Learn the lesson of your pain
Gary Null -
The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.
Steve Hanke -
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.
Kate Madison -
Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.
Kate Madison -
If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from.
Alanna Knight -
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
Thomas Carlyle
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Comrades, it is difficult for me to speak because this blow is the hardest blow for me. But I think that it will also be a lesson for me.
Bela Kun -
From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.
Hal Moore -
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
Edwin A. Abbott -
My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
Jesse Livermore -
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs -
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
Jasper Fforde
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I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
Eddie Griffin -
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jimmy Carter -
And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.
Elizabeth Lesser -
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
Ernst Bacon -
I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.
Susan Carroll
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
John Ruskin -
No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.
Ally Carter -
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
Shekhar Kapur -
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.
Sigrid Undset