First Lesson Quotes

54 First Lesson quotes by 48 unique authors

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their… — Clive James
In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to… — Haile Gebrselassie
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — John Dryden
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey Newton
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of… — Thomas Sowell
The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace. — Cat Stevens
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic… — Frank Herbert
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult… — Junot Diaz
Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t… — Richelle Mead
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… — Thomas Huxley
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. — Arthur C. Clarke
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For… — Frank Herbert
You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate. — Richelle Mead
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. — Jonathan Franzen
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing. — A.M. Jenkins
He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely... — Corrie Ten Boom
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if… — Malcolm X
Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation,… — Paulo Coelho
The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do. — Joss Whedon
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for… — Winston Churchill
I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates. — Michael Ovitz
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war.… — Shimon Peres

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