Lessons Quotes - Page 19

• The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

  Jane Addams

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

  Sam Walton

  Reading, Learning, Hands

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.29, Bantam

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• Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Selflessness, Teach

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2015

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• We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  School, Kids, Compassion

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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• The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

  R. L. Stine

  Writing

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• One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

  Ariel Durant

  Science, Law, Fundamentals

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Mom, Mother

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

  Greg Lake

  Fun, Self, People

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• A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Long, Moral, Discourse

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• Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

  Louise Hay

  Spiritual, Space, Pathways

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

  Chandra Wilson

  Mom, Friday, Monday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

  Glen Hansard

  Believe, People, Earth

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• Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

  Andrea Corr

  Kids, Dancing, Wells

  "Andrea Corr in Dancing at Lughnasa: 'forget everything you've ever heard about me'". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

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• I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Dad, Real, Golf

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• Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

  Eve Arnold

  Numbers, Cameras, Attention

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Novelists, Events

  Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.

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• I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Thinking, Laughing, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alison Brie

  Thinking, Needs, Too Late

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  Ben Bernanke

  Thinking, Trying, Orthodoxy

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• You always learn lessons in business.

  Eli Broad

  Learning Lessons

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• I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.

  Steve Burns

  Smart, Blue, Clue

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• I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

  Zach Braff

  Piano, Want, Study

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• 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

  School, Years, Class

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