Lessons Quotes - Page 26

• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  Ouida

  Vices, New Life, Pages

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• Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

  Winston Churchill

  History, Mankind

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Self, Feelings

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

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• In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

  Robert Musil

  Lying, Intellectual, Analogies

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Believe, Heart

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.33

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• A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life Lesson, Reticence, Hard

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• I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

  Michael Madsen

  Years, Interviews, I've Learned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Thinking, Inspire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Law, Universe

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Running, Memories, Issues

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• My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
  The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.

  Hajo Meyer

  Want, Uniforms, Firsts

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• The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

  Catherine McAuley

  Today, Tomorrow, Resolve

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• I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

  Stefon Harris

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

  Willow Smith

  Father, School, Kids

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

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• The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Past

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• Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

  John Muir

  Heart, School, Views

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Adults, Firsts

  1970 Of the mother's subjugation to her family's demands. The Female Eunuch,'Love: Family'.

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• My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wise, Mother, Eye

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.2

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• Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

  Aeschylus

  Waxing, Teach

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.128

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• The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

  Cyril Connolly

  Veins

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Successful, Winning, Thinking

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  Aldo Leopold

  Weed, Real, Sea

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.

  John Jay Chapman

  Religious, Long, Political

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

  Amy Lee

  Fun, School, Evanescence

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