Lessons Quotes · Page 27

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

— John Wooden

“Mistakes are water. Grow your lessons from them.”

— Alexandra Elle

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

— Humphrey Lyttelton

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

— Todd Bennett

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

— Lindsey Buckingham

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

— George Eliot

“Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.”

— Shannon Alder

The thing about lessons is that you have to actually listen if you want to learn anything.

— Antonio Rudiger

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the…

— John Herschel

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

— Mark White

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your…

— Niki Taylor

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

— Tiffany Darwish

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

— Bob Dole

I do have a lot of fire in me and could use some lessons on how to handle things more calmly.

— Kyle Richards

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in…

— Tinker Hatfield

“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what…

— Terry Pratchett

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept…

— Elle Varner

When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and…

— Jared Leto

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She…

— Jeff Bridges

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do…

— Vanessa Carlton

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen…

— Alice Hoffman

I've had so many [life lessons], but the more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become. I truly believe anything…

— Matt Sorum

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States,…

— Peter Bergen

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but…

— Martin Dugard

One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are…

— Michael Card

We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people…

— Ronald Reagan

Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed…

— Barbara Rose

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely…

— Daniel Everett

Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments…

— Lloyd Alexander

Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons…

— Mark Steyn

The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Life is like a great teacher… she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

— Ricky Martin

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

— Jonathan Raban

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

— Oscar Wilde

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The best lessons schoolchildren will learn in life.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

— LaToya Jackson

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

— Paul Rusesabagina

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

— Francine Pascal