Top 1200 Lessons Of The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Perhaps lessons learned from space can be applied to other areas particularly to the solution of social problems.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

I'd make all schoolchildren take ballet lessons every morning. And I'd ban advertising aimed at children.

The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream.

Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or present victimization became mandatory. The Great Society and the War on Poverty were some of the first truly deferential policies.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had; the life lessons I've learned along the way are just completely invaluable.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

I used to have elocution lessons when I was growing up, and then it kind of got to the point where I was like, this is me.'

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.