Top 1200 Life Lesson Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can't run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I was this tiny, frail little girl, I needed to build up muscle, and I fell in love with dancing from the first lesson.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and my mother was so upset. "How could you allow him to beat you? You should really be upset with him." And I said, "Mother, I can't be." She goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I can't harbor hatred in my heart." I was extremely religious and extremely naïve. God took me through that for a reason, for me to learn the outcome.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

By getting hurt, you might realize that what you thought you wanted and needed wasn't actually right for you. And that's a lesson only heartbreak and pain can teach you.

I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid, aren't you? You think that'll show them they're wrong. So how'd that working out for you? Guess what? They don't care. To them, you're a monster, and nothing you do--or don't do--will change their minds. My advice? Give 'em what they want. It's a short, brutal life." He smiled. "Live it up." Derek stared straight ahead, patiently waiting. "He can't hear a word I'm saying, can he?" Liam said. "Nope.

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.