Important Lessons Quotes

• Let's address the issue of how America deals with the Iraqis and how we deal with the region, recognize the fact that this is a misadventure, which it is in our interest to terminate and not to repeat. That's a rather important conclusion to draw, and a very important lesson.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Issues, Important

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Gratitude, Knowing, Suffering

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.224, Workman Publishing

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  The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Men, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.37, Rabindranath Tagore

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• This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Bad Day, Years, Forever

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Yield

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Zero, Important

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

  Markus Ruhl

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Simple

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• I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Moving, Home

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• One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by what you do or create. Jesus is a wonderful example of this. He would not allow the crowd to define Him by His considerable gifts, even though they tried to do so. Jesus always points away from Himself and His gifts and thereby wins praise for the Father. We are not our gifts. We are called to give more. Like Jesus, we are called to give ourselves. That is the real purpose behind our gifts; they are vehicles for giving the self.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Father, Real

  "Vehicles for Giving the Self: An Interview with Michael Card". Tabletalk Magazine interview, www.ligonier.org.

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• I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Worry, Anxiety, Important

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

  Ed McMahon

  Marine, Two, Important

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• I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

  Todd Bennett

  Thinking, Design, Important

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Mean, Over You

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

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• It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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

  Tina Sloan

  Simple, Games, Careers

  Tina Sloan (2010). “Changing Shoes: Staying in the Game with Style, Humor, and Grace”, p.63, Penguin

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• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Progress

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

  Carlos Mencia

  Taught Us, People, Swim

  "New Orleans Web Denizens Steamed Over Mencia's Orpheus Invite" by Lauren List, www.mardigras.com. February 05, 2009.

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• A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

  Martin Short

  Awards, Years, Weather

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

  Martha Wainwright

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Voice, Listening, Important

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• Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

  Ken Kesey

  Book, Writing, Taught Us

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