School Of Hard Knocks Quotes

• There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Greatness, Humans

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• By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Mistake, School, Emotional

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• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

  Menander

  School, Experience, Curriculum

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• I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

  John Lydon

  Kings, School, Soul

  Source: mojo20.com

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• Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, School, Adversity

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  School, Adventure, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

  Caterina Fake

  School, Effectiveness, Excellence

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• I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

  David Livermore

  School, Giving, Degrees

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
  Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox.
  Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
  The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

  Chuck D

  Rap, School, Hip Hop

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