Top 1200 Important Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Building my family and my business in Jasper has taught me so much in my life, and one of those lessons is to always put people first.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.

There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.

I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything's a grind and it doesn't get easier.

In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

When I took the decision to join City, Pep Guardiola's call was very important. He called me, spoke to me about the project, and explained that I was going to be an important part of it. I felt very happy. The prestige of Manchester City's shirt is also very important.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.