Lessons Quotes - Page 38

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

My biggest lesson is patience. I always want things to happen overnight and they don't. I've had to learn this lesson a few times in life and, usually, it results in taking more time to fix the problem because it was rushed.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

The best students get the hardest lessons.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.