Lessons Quotes
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One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
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I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.
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Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.
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Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.
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When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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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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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
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From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.
