Lessons Quotes - Page 23

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

I used to teach dance lessons.

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

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

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Live longer or die hard is not just a movie title, there is a great lesson hidden in this title.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.