“Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather… — Stewart Shapiro Copy Share Image
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like,… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored,… — R.S. Vern Copy Share Image
I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but… — Michael Clayton Copy Share Image
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I didn't want to talk to… — J. R. Smith Copy Share Image
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given… — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving… — Tina Sloan Copy Share Image
I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is… — Aubrey O'Day Copy Share Image
In No Limit Hold'em, much like video games and karate lessons, you need to master one level before you can move on… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons. — Amelie Mauresmo Copy Share Image
I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't… — Kristopher Belman Copy Share Image
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image