Quotes with lessons

  • Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
  • I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
  • The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
  • There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Anna Quindlen But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Marie Dressler By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • Pat Buchanan Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Stephen King 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.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Al Jourgensen Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Bill Gates It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
    USAir Magazine, "Bill Gates: The Importance of Making Mistakes", July 1995, p. 48
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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