Quotes with lessons

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  • Ernest Dimnet Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Al Franken Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Brad D. Smith My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Brian Austin Green My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon 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.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bartlett Sher That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Bob Rae The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Spiro T. Agnew The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
    Spiro T. Agnew
    39th Vice President of the United States, (1918 - 1996)
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  • Anita Brookner The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carlos Ghosn There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Brad Stone There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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