It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter ,… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because… — Rachel Uchitel Copy Share Image
The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That… — Terry Matthews Copy Share Image
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking. — Nandita Das Copy Share Image
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey — Ruth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. — William Osler Copy Share Image
My parents made me take piano lessons from 1st grade to when I graduated from high school, and music never came to… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
My time at Alabama has meant the world to me. The friendships and family I've made here will be with me always,… — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Listen to 100 of my sermons, and 80 or 90 of them will be about overcoming our struggles and the lessons God… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself.… — Yanni Copy Share Image
“Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life; You won't understand it until you go through it on your own. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
I'm not going to thank the man who told me I had no character. I'm not that magnanimous, and he could do… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image