Lessons Quotes

• Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Read
  • Passionate
  • Personal

• I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Silly

• Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Blood
  • Lessons
  • Forgotten

• I am a wannabe guitarist and in that journey I had been invited to the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford to talk about my experience of the music industry in return for guitar lessons.

  

  Peter Cox Go West
  • Experience
  • Lessons
  • Guitarist

• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  

  Kate Elliott
  • Father
  • Design
  • Ignorance

• Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Needs

• The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

  

  Nandita Das
  • Lessons
  • Filmmaking

• I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Success
  • Stupid
  • Learners

• WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Learned
  • I Think
  • Reasons

• I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

  

  Merrill Markoe
  • Classic
  • Grandpa
  • Mortality

• "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

• I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

  

  George Clooney
  • Made
  • Humility
  • Worst

• it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

  

  Mark Richardson
  • Forever
  • Lessons
  • Reminders

• I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.

  

  Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • Age
  • Enough
  • Jobs

• This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Learn
  • Lessons
  • Scientific Method

• Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • School
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Teach
  • Lessons
  • Painful

• Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off And take back some of the pride that I've lost 'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

  

  Bekka Bramlett
  • Song
  • Way
  • Lessons

• Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

  

  Plutarch
  • Qualities
  • Muses
  • Humanizing

• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Library
  • Quiet
  • Librarian

• When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.

  

  Niccolò Paganini
  • Elementary
  • Passionately
  • Nevertheless

• Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • War
  • Wells
  • Forgotten

• 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

• It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Levels
  • Impressive
  • Calamity

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