Lessons Quotes - Page 29

• Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

  James F. Cooper

  Taught Us, Justice, Sublime

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

  Christina Aguilera

  Years, Turning 30, I've Learned

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• The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Cairo, Way, Violence

  "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

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• Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

  Harry Chapin

  Nice, Eye, Gun

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

  Harry Chapin

  Crazy, Feet, Lazy

  Song: I Wanna Learn a Love Song

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• There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn There are callouses that come That the lovers got to earn In the years of your youth You can't be fire proof You know you've got to get burned.

  Harry Chapin

  Fire, Years, Lovers

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.

  George Bodenheimer

  Children, Powerful, Team

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• One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

  Johnny Reid

  Being Yourself, Always Trying, Feet

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.

  Anna Kendrick

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  "Anna Kendrick: I'm so excited for the Oscars". Cover Media Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. February 19, 2015.

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• I guess the biggest lesson would be to have faith in that little part of yourself that knows what it's doing, knows what it wants, knows what you should be doing, even when all the clamour around you is telling you something else. That's the part that you want to keep alive and that's the part that people want to see when they see you on the screen.

  Mark Ruffalo

  People, Alive, Have Faith

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Careers, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

  Maya Angelou

  War, Humans, Capable

  "Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities" by Brian Mayne, (p. 84), 2006.

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• Saviour! teach me, day by day,
  Love's sweet lesson to obey;
  Sweeter lesson cannot be,
  Loving Him who first loved me.
  Charity is the very livery of Christ.

  Hugh Latimer

  Sweet, First Love, Charity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 395, 1895.

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• The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.

  Craig Ferguson

  Beauty, Queens, Kids

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• The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

  Preston Manning

  Top Down, Doors, People

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

  Willie Nelson

  Hard Work, Texas, Grandparent

  "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, 2006.

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• Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

  Andy Partridge

  Heart, School, Broken

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• But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

  Beilby Porteus

  Men, Heaven, Christ

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288

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• These hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. The lesson: stay aware on a bicycle and look up the road in front of you at all times to make sure you can deal with what's coming and the condition of the road you're gonna be rolling down!

  Mike Watt

  Hurt, Reading, Rolling

  Personal Blog entry, www.hootpage.com. December 20, 2003.

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, Meaning Of Life

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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• Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Meaningful, Generations, Way

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• We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

  Li Yizhong

  Safety, Taught, Coal

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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• Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.

  John S. Hall

  Today Life, Today, Offers

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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