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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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• Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religion, Looks, Spirit

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• The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

  Joshua Kushner

  Average, Amazon, Score

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• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Important, Fiction

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• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Angel, Knees

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• I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Long, Fiction

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• You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

  Taylor Swift

  Way, Hard, Learning Lessons

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• I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

  Charlize Theron

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 17, 2015

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• I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

  John Cage

  Sound, Remember, Live By

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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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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• The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

  Rudy Giuliani

  America, Enemy, Our Love

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• Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

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• Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

  Richard Branson

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• I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Writing, Kids

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• Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

  Stuart Townsend

  Teacher, Dark, Years

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• Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be through sickness in someone else's life it can be through a bad attitude -or maybe through torn relationships and being angry all the time. I don't know how unforgiveness will manifest itself in your life, but what I can tell you is: it isn't worth it! All of us have done something we need forgiveness for.

  Thelma Wells

  Attitude, Way, Bitterness

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• Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Dream, Idols

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• Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

  Drew Barrymore

  Marriage, People, Taught

  "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

  Paule Marshall

  Mother, Art, Kitchen

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very first time. And that is so important, because sometimes all it takes is that first lesson, or clinic, or class to get a child excited about a new sport. This summer, together with our children, we can support Team USA not just by cheering them on, but by striving to live up to the example they set.

  Michelle Obama

  Summer, Sports, Cheer

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• He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

  Laozi

  Nature, Patient, Aggressive

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.32, Jain Publishing Company

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• This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Character, Lifts, Our Lives

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