Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
Sometimes we spend so much time giving advice to other people that we don't realize we are the ones who need to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned lessons in America about how you go about things, and what I know is that you find the best… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone.… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one… — John Newton Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take… — Jean-Michel Cousteau Copy Share Image
Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
“I figured we really shouldn’t grieve for those who leave us for God. They’ve arrived at their destinations with lucky souls no… — Lynnda Pollio Copy Share Image
God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face,… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself… — Ellyse Perry Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people… — Joshua Nkomo Copy Share Image
a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
I got so much negative feedback about my accent. People saying, 'Yeah, you need to go to elocution lessons.' — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter spoke to me about ladders… — Indeewara Jayawardane Copy Share Image
I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world. — Jordana Brewster Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Theres a reason behind everything I do. Lessons are quick to learn, never give anyone your full trust, even the devil was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
